How Do You Offer Mental Health Support?

Tanya J. Peterson

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How Do You Offer Mental Health Support?
From the HealthyPlace Mental Health Blogs
Video: Bipolar Disorder and Self-Love
Most Popular HealthyPlace Articles Shared by Facebook Fans
Mental Health Quote

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Facebook Live This Wednesday

People love our Facebook Live events with therapist, Emily Roberts. Emily will be taking your personal mental health questions this Wednesday evening. We start at 7p CT / 8 ET. I hope you’ll join us and feel free to invite others. Our page is here.

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Offering mental health support isn’t always easy to do. Read to find 5 things to say to offer mental health support at HealthyPlace

How Do You Offer Mental Health Support?

Have you ever wanted to be there for someone who is facing mental health difficulties, but you weren’t quite sure what to say? (Supporting the Mentally Ill: Best Things to Say) Of course you meant well. You just weren’t sure how to talk about mental health support. Wanting to reach out supportively to someone but not knowing how to proceed is common. Try these five ideas for supporting someone facing mental health difficulties.

5 Supportive Things to Say to Support Someone Facing Mental Health Challenges

I’m here to talk when you need someone to listen. This opens the door without pressuring someone to share on the spot.
We haven’t had a chance to have fun together lately. Let’s go ______. This shows that you still enjoy being with the person.
Maybe we can walk side by side through this. You don’t have to try to fix anything. Being there with someone is helpful in and of itself.
You are important to a lot of people. Gently reminding someone that he or she is a positive part of others’ lives is powerful.
I believe in you. I want to help you believe in yourself again, too. This helps build someone up without minimizing what they’re going through.

Simply showing up in someone’s life to be with him or her is one of the best possible ways to show support. These five simple statements will bolster someone’s mental health—and your own, too.

From the HealthyPlace Mental Health Blogs

On all our blogs, your comments and observations are welcomed.

Feel free to share your thoughts and comments at the bottom of any blog post. And visit the mental health blogs homepage for the latest posts.

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From HealthyPlace YouTube Channel

I'm Hannah. I Have Bipolar 2

Bipolar Disorder and Finding the Right Job

Finding a suitable job when you live with bipolar disorder is difficult, so I want to share my experience with the job search after my diagnosis of bipolar 2 disorder. (Watch Hannah)

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Most Popular HealthyPlace Articles Shared by Facebook Fans

Here are the top 3 mental health articles HealthyPlace Facebook fans are recommending you read:

If you're not already, I hope you'll like us on Facebook too. There are a lot of wonderful, supportive people there.

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Mental Health Quote

"It just occurred to me that many people are actually afraid to heal because their entire identity is centered around the trauma they’ve experienced. They have no idea who they are outside of trauma and that unknown can be terrifying."