"The hardest people to love are the ones who need it most.
In honour of Valentine’s Day, here are some ideas for showing love to friends and family members with anxiety/ depression:
1.) Give Compliments:
2.) Offer Your Company
3.) Send Texts or Email To Ask How They Are Doing….Really
4.) Take Care Of Him
5.) Invite Her For A Walk Outside….And Keep On Inviting Her
6.) Hug Him….The Longer The Hug, The Better
7.) Let Her Be
The hardest, most isolating part of mental illness is trying to live up to real, or imagined pressure from family and friends to be happy.
Accept that she is not happy today.
Offer no advice on how to change her mood.
Be with her when she is irritable, and don’t make her feel guilty for it.
Let her know that although you don’t fully understand what she is going through, you believe every complaint she has, and you respect her strength in living through it.
Let her be.
Don’t force her to pretend.
Love is unconditional, after all."
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