Read in this series
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- 10 ways to build resilience
- Building professional resilience: A quick guide
- Building Resilience: Keep things in perspective
- Building Resilience: Take care of yourself
- Building Resilience: Change is a part of life
- Building Resilience: Move toward your goals
- Building Resilience: Look for opportunities for self-discovery
- Building Resilience: Nurture a positive view of yourself
- Building Resilience: Taking Decisive Action
- Building Resilience: Dealing with a crisis
- Building Resilience: Maintaining a hopeful outlook
- Building Resilience: Making connections
- Steps toward good mental health
- Understanding Fatigue: Why we get tired and what can we do about it?
- Understanding Fatigue: Why good sleep is important
- Understanding Fatigue: How body clock can make or break our health
- Understanding Fatigue: Why time awake needs control
- Understanding Fatigue: How to avoid jet lag
- Understanding Fatigue: Why workload is an increasing concern
- Understanding Fatigue: Don’t let stress run your life
- Understanding Fatigue: Making a healthy lifestyle part of our day-to-day lives
- Understanding Fatigue: Dealing with individual differences
- Building Resilience: How to develop a fatigue reporting culture
- Building Resilience: How to balance work and task demands
- Building Resilience: Mental health tips for seafarers in need
- Building Resilience: How to create a positive coaching style of management
- Building Resilience: Fostering empathy towards mental health issues
- Building Resilience: Steps towards a wellbeing & mental health management system
- Building Resilience: Keep an eye open for people with depression
Being active, setting realistic goals for yourself and trying to spend time with other people instead of isolating yourself are things that can help any individual with depression. In any case, one should expect to change his mood gradually and not immediately. Most importantly, aim at discussing openly your feelings and thoughts with people you feel close, seek for medical assistant and keep educate yourself about depression and ways to feel better.
What to say to someone with depression
There’s no perfect thing to say to someone living with depression. Your words won’t cure them. But they can help, Keep the focus on them and remember to listen first!
- Do you want to talk about it? I’m here when you’re ready
- What can I do to help today?
- I may not understand exactly how you feel, but you’re not alone.
- I’m really sorry you’re going through this. I’m here for you if you need me.