How to Help Someone with Depression: What Actually Helps (and What Makes It Worse)
About this episode
Pam shares her personal journey with depression and offers insights on how to support someone struggling with mental health issues.
How do you help someone with depression when they believe they're a burden? Pam knows that feeling all too well. After years of suppressing depression, childhood trauma, and overwhelming life stress, she experienced a severe depressive episode that lasted more than three years. During that time, she was hospitalized four times, survived a suicide attempt, and struggled to believe she would ever experience joy again. Today, Pam shares not only how she recovered, but what family members, friend...
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