When accompanying patients with depression, family members should have these three strong beliefs, so that their anxiety is alleviated!
I have always said that family members’ thoughtful companionship is the greatest blessing for them!
At this critical moment, family members need to remain calm, which requires them to understand the patient’s condition and their state of mind, only in this way can they achieve understanding, respect for the patient’s current terrible state, rather than rejection, complaints, or blame.
The behavior of family members directly affects the speed of the patient’s recovery, this statement is not an exaggeration!
Just like the saying goes:
“Companionship with dedication and empathy yields twice the result with half the effort.
Otherwise, it will only worsen the patient’s condition and lead to even worse situations.”
We all know that tragedies start spreading from negativity, pessimism, and self-abandonment, while harmony begins to improve when we promptly halt, bravely face the situation.
Therefore, the work of family members in accompanying patients is the same.
Therefore, when accompanying patients with anxiety and depression (including bipolar disorder, schizophrenia), family members need to have the following three strong beliefs in the realm of mental cognition, so that you can avoid excessive or blind anxiety, causing unnecessary trouble and conflicts with the patients.
Family members must believe that the patient (child) has only encountered some emotional issues temporarily, resulting in manifestations of confusion in the mind, but this is just a test in their life, similar to many other tests they will face in the future, as long as they are patiently accompanied, actively seek treatment, then after years of tempering and the caring efforts of family members, the patient will definitely recover.
Perhaps the recovery time will be a year, maybe two years, but family members must believe one thing: the patient (child) will definitely get better! Because what they suffer from is not an untreatable physical condition.
Family members should believe that timely damage control will only make things better.
What does timely damage control mean? It means telling family members that when they encounter problems, they should not self-abandon, but timely control the situation, not letting their thoughts drift towards negativity and worst-case scenarios, this is the best form of self-intervention and coping in the spiritual realm. Only when they remain calm, can they take care of the overall situation and the patient.
Therefore, family members need to actively face the fact that their family members suffer from anxiety and depression, accept them, only then can their emotions calm down. At this point, family members need to tell themselves: “Do not complain out of anger, try to put themselves in the patient’s shoes, understand their state of mind and situation, only then can they empathize and allow the patient to become the way they are today.”
This wise attitude of family members actually greatly encourages the patients, making them feel understood and respected, giving them the motivation to fight the illness. Perhaps this is the power of love and warmth!
After all, when you fall ill, it is the eternal company of family members that matters, at this critical moment, only family members truly love you, no matter how many acquaintances you have, how many people claim to like you, when real trouble strikes, they might distance themselves, but family’s love is selfless, never scornful, and stands by you until the end!
Indeed, it has been proven that excessive anxiety of family members tends to lead to negative thoughts and dreadful outcomes.
Indeed, when family members excessively worry, they are actually having terrible nightmares in their own world, neglecting the significance of reality.
This especially needs to be emphasized to the family members accompanying the patients.
Anxiety is like a virus that unknowingly infects and affects the patient’s mood. I strongly believe in this.
When family members cannot control their worries well, they often bring many troubles to the patients, such as: baseless concerns of family members, fearing that certain things might happen, and then blindly and erratically forcing the patients to do things they are finding difficult to do.
For example, at that moment, because the patient has taken antidepressant medication, they feel physically and mentally exhausted, but family members have heard that exercise can effectively ease depressive moods, so they continuously urge and push them to exercise, while constantly nagging at them.
Such actions only worsen the patient’s condition because the patient is already in great discomfort at that moment, which you fail to see, instead, it is a form of unreasonable coercion.
Thus, family members must guide the patients rationally based on the situation, not being self-centered, thinking about what they prefer, while neglecting the patient’s current predicament, as this often leads to counterproductive results.”
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