How to Support a Loved One Struggling with Mental Health

As we near almost 10 months of a pandemic state, the stress and mental health is taking a toll on so many people — health wise losing someone, health wise fearing losing someone, economically, socially just not seeing people as much, students are finding learning virtually stressful are just a couple of things going on.

During this time period, I’ve received this question from a lot of people.

How can I support a friend struggling with mental health?

For the first time in people’s lives, many people who hadn’t previously dealt with mental health struggles are now dealing with them and those who were dealing with them prior, theirs might be getting even worse.

In this video, I talk about 3 tips I have for supporting a friend struggling with mental health.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jBVRmW4Ajew

I would love to hear from anyone, whether you want to publicly comment or privately message me, is this advice helpful? Can you think of any other advice that I didn’t include that may be helpful?

Thank you guys, hope you guys have a great Saturday!