My mother has got depression, how to solve it?

Question

She doesnt have showers since the past 2 days, she sleeps alot, she makes food and then she doesnt clean up the kitchen, she goes out with her friend and talk about the same thingg and she stinks

Answer 1

You have a funny avatar here you go:
You must let her read this if possible:

How to Get out of a Depression

You're depressed for whatever reason, you're tired of coping, and you want out. Getting back on track can often appear impossible, but with the right attitude, it rarely is, so long as you know how.

Steps

1. Have the will to get out. Many depressed people remain so simply out of a lack of the will to want to get out. Attaining this will may require focus. If so, focus. You need to have the confidence that you're capable of changing, and the motivation to buckle down and change. Otherwise you won't get anywhere.
2. Establish a clear understanding of what made you depressed. Was it the break up? Are you unsure about your career? Self-worth? Many people remain unhappy because they attribute their unhappiness to the wrong things, or to nothing at all. Social pressure can often keep you from even questioning your happiness about certain things. Be honest with yourself, or you wont even know what to move on from.
3. Change your state of affairs. If you're unhappy, and want to become happy, something about your life clearly needs to change. For many people, this means their surroundings. Are you still living in the small town that caused your feeling's of rural inadequacy? Move. Are you still working at the company that gives you no sense of meaning whatsoever? Quit. Are you still in the relationship that is making you feel manipulated? Break up. This may seem trivial, but it's often the most overlooked obstacle between you and you're satisfaction.
4. Gain some perspective. You have access to the internet, that places you well above the social circumstances of the majority of the world. There's a point at which you simply have to accept that your happiness is your own responsibility, and it's comprised of the decisions you make. Everything in your life capable of breaking is going to at some point. You've got hands. Fix them.
5. Seek help from a mental health professional.Many studies prove that talk therapy helps with depression. To get the most out of talk therapy, you need to find a therapist that you like and trust, and work with him or her over a longer period of time. It doesn't have to be years, but don't expect that serious depression will evaporate without some consistent work on your part. Cost doesn't have to be a barrier: most cities have reduced-fee clinics and many universities offer help through their psychology training programs.


Tips

* Wake up earlier, or later. Your problem may just be the way you're managing your day. Waking up earlier may make you feel more productive and lucent. Waking up later may make you feel freer and more alive. Figure out which one you need and adjust (or buy) your alarm.
* Get a pet. Having something alive depend on you can make you feel needed, and consequently valuable. It also provides you with something to love, which, though not a surrogate, can do a lot for you if loneliness or rejection is the cause of your depression.
* Improve some aspect of yourself. One obvious way to improve your sense of self worth is to improve your self worth. Learn more about a field of knowledge, language or instrument, go to the gym, help out in the community, go to (or back to) school. Even if these things don't work you'll at the very least become a better person for it.
* Don't take yourself too seriously. All in all, there may be more important (and interesting) things in the world than yourself, especially if you're young, and aren't supporting a family. Chill out. You might be missing a good joke in all of this.


Warnings

* Let a doctor decide if your depression is clinical. And don't lie to him or her so you can get anti-depressants. If you aren't clinically depressed and you take medication for it you may run the risk of permanently damaging yourself.

Answer 2

hello;first of all those are very nasty things to say about your mother,you should be ashamed of yourself.what if she talked about you over the internet like that?how would you like it?hu?you cannot help her with this type of negitive attitude,i wouldn't be a bit surprised if your not part of the reason that she is depressed. i sure hope you don't talk to her the way you talk about her.try showing her some respect,maybe all she needs is a little encouragement instead of being bad mouthed.i don't care if it is true:dogging her is not going to help one bit.maybe she's lonely do you ever bother to just .talking to her,or ask her to go somewhere with you just to get out of the house once in a while?(you know showing her that you love her)or do you?i am not trying to be mean,it's just that you really come off like a real jerk....bye

Answer 3

If this is a short term thing, a few days to a few weeks, it may be a mourning period and she may get over it. If this is a chronic thing, going on for many months or years, getting her into therapy is the best thing.

Answer 4

Do all those things for her,including the baths...lol. Then ask her, 'now doesn't that feel better?' Or is there something you wanna alk about?

Answer 5

I'd talk to your mom about going to see a doctor, therapist, psychologist, or councilor. Your mom really needs to talk to a professional.

Answer 6

Your mom needs to go to her medical doctor and get on a medication that will help her get control of things a little better. This will take time but the sooner she gets on something the better she will be.

Answer 7

Check the DSM manual and you'll see that your mother doesn't meet the criteria for depression. She's probably just gross.

Answer 8

You're a clown... cheer her up.

Answer 9

move out...