Join Now
It's been a tough week across the globe. Share your thoughts in our new 2008 Financial Crisis support group.
The support and encouragement of friends and family can have a very powerful effect on one's ability to heal and overcome challenges. "The friend who can be silent with us in a moment of despair or confusion, who can stay with us in an hour of grief and bereavement, who can tolerate not knowing... not healing, not curi... more at Wikipedia
Treatment Success Rate
| Top 5 Communities | ||
| Condition | Members | Success |
| Breakups & Divorce | 5701 |
91% |
| Depression | 4450 |
84% |
| Bereavement | 2354 |
89% |
| Eating Disorders | 1023 |
80% |
| Depression - Teen | 462 |
77% |
Overall, 88% (16250
Members)
find Support from Friends & Family helpful
Support from Friends & Family Reviews
Working / Worked
My only source of compassion and support. This is everything to me now.
Working / Worked
Helps so much
Working / Worked
Can be helpful- Also, having family & friends can provide the guilt factor needed to deter one from doing anything 'rash' whilst depressed. Now I've got kids I feel I have to be around for them even if I don't always feel like it.
Working / Worked
Yes. Friends help. One friend has experience with counseling and has lost both his parents. Also just spending more time with friends in general. Human contact helps healing.
Working / Worked
NONE
Working / Worked
talk to my best friend and my sister and my mother and it makes me feel better
Working / Worked
We need these people to help us through
Working / Worked
I've tried a lot of things and this one is pretty important
Working / Worked
not getting much help there.
Working / Worked
This helped to a small degree
Working / Worked
Every time I need to vent, my friends Hannah or Vivian are always there to talk.
Working / Worked
Oh, My, God! Any day that I am having one of those "I don't care" days, my friend Hannah will start talking to me, and I feel much better. I'm sorry for dumping everything on you Hannah, but you know that you are the best friend I could ever have!
Working / Worked
I have 2 siblings I talk to all the time and it helps.
Working / Worked
Abou the only thing that is a constant. My wife has helped immensely even though I probably haven't showed her enough.
Working / Worked
nly from my closest friend who knew i was wanting to be a man.
Showing 46 - 60 of 16379 Reviews
Discussions
-
BiPolar 1
exercise, abilify (& the rest of meds), support from friends & family, good pdocs. [More] -
I feel i have failed my kids!!!!!!
do you have help or any kind of support from family or friends, [More] -
Do we have family support
My actual family is too messed up...but i have a lot of support from my best friends family, they have seen me through it all since i was 15 [More] -
Support.... from where?
Friends and family. [More] -
Support.... from where?
friends & family [More]
