Helping your loved one through depression, anxiety and addiction.

We are contacted daily by parents, partners and friends who have a loved one they wish to assist but are watching them spiral further down into depression, anxiety and addiction and are desperate for ways to help them before they possibly hurt themselves.

In many cases the person they wish to assist has yet to admit they have a problem and thinks they are successfully managing to keep it hidden, and although it is obvious to everyone around them they are yet to acknowledge the issue at all. This is usually because they have spent lots of time and money in the past and have been unsuccessful as well as being told by professionals that these states are incurable - only manageable, which is untrue.

We have found the best way forward is to support and educate these people in supporting roles to gain some momentum for change from the person exhibiting symptoms of stress, depression and anxiety leading to addiction.

The support you need is here

Our unique solution is educational - so if a sufferer is not ready for change yet, we teach the people around them as much as we can to support them until they are ready to do so.
This works in two ways.

1. It actually gives the people around them something to do and techniques that work eliminating
feelings of doubt and hopelessness that are so prevalent when dealing with these issues.
2. It shows a person dealing with these issues that there is a third solution that they have not tried
yet, so they cannot judge it in the same way as they haven’t attempted it.

It also shows them that the people around them are investing their time into finding a solution, assisting to raise self-worth and motivation for change, reducing isolation and feelings of being alone in this.
Chipping away at the belief that this problem is too big to fix which is just not true - it just needs the right solution applied.

So where to start?

The first thing is to stabilise the environment, but try to do so without being invasive and always ask for consent. ..
Our guests are usually highly stressed and emotional, have spent a large amount of time, effort and cash trying to solve their problem and are ridiculously good at distracting themselves - which is a common part of having stress, depression or anxiety and especially addiction.

If they cannot fix themselves, then the best thing they can do in the short term is distract themselves which becomes a continuous cycle.

So an obvious starting point is to make sure a person has a good clean orderly home environment and gets some good wholesome food into them is the best place to start - a person’s external environment is a great indicator of an internal mental environment and one does affect the other.

The next step is to get hold of new and relevant information as there is no point asking a person to try something they have tried unsuccessfully many times before all you will get is anger and despair as a response.
Have a look at our book or better yet our external program How to help people with depression anxiety and addiction.
Once you really understand the true cause of these states you’re in a much better position to explain the information to others.

You might consider changing the home environment to reflect the principles we use here if possible. This would involve limiting communication and distractions. Turn off the phone and television for periods of time, use mindfulness meditation first thing in the morning for 20 minutes to calm the mind, or for 20 minutes in the evening to help sleep as well as going over the information in our book and educational packs daily to increase understanding and application.

Limit sugar, wheat, dairy, soy and caffeine as many people have intolerances and reactions they are unaware of. Start daily vegetable juicing to increase natural nutrition and take 2-4 grams of EPA/DHA daily for brain food, exercise and stretch daily to increase endorphins even if it is only for 20 minutes and make sure you get some kind of sun exposure every day for vitamin D.

If you implement an environment of change and lead by example you will be surprised at how quickly the person you are worried about will start to consider committing to change, any change! Because what they are doing is not working and being free from stress ,depression and anxiety is possible - it simply needs the right information to be learned, applied and continued to be used for over 28 days for neural change to take place.