My sister suffers from depression and woun't seek help I am afraid for her life!?

Question

Her father comitted suicide and
My mother died five years ago and it has been so hard for her
she is in denial ! she wount listen to me. Everyone tells her she needs help! she is an adult!

Answer 1

high risk like my late brother was. i wish i had had enough sense to intercede (actually he was bi-polar but doesn't matter). i was just like you but i just didn't think he would really die the way he did. you need to seek advice from a good pyschiatrist. not some of those whackjobs and hysterical social workers. they need to see her and try to determine if she is extremely high risk as you describe.

to save her life you and the rest of the family need to get her in a proper hospital and you can. dead or alive, which would you pick?

if she won't see the psychiatrist, face up to what must be done considering the facts you have presented. a psychiatrist could mostly tell whether she was a threat to herself or that you are overreacting. with your family history, i would think you are dead right.

Answer 2

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Answer 3

Many people still think if they seek help for depression people will think they are "crazy" or mentally ill. It is an illness with real physical symptoms and causes. Seeking treatment for depression is no more embarassing than seeing a doctor because you have high blood pressure or heart problems. There are several online surveys you can take to determine if you have symptoms of depression. Maybe you can sit down with her and talk her into taking one. Then, if you have a family doctor, ask her to make an appointment. He or she can refer you to other professionals if needed. Offer to go with her if she will let you go. Situational depression ( that stemming from a traumatic life event) is very common and easily treated.

Answer 4

She might not want the treatment, but she still needs to understand your genuine concern for her. Talking about things does help a person to gain perspective on personal issues. They see the matter only from their vantage point. If you can possibly persuade her to talk to a group of people who have had similar experience. She might feel less exposed that way. Please don't suggest a doctor who will place her on anti-depressants. They contributed greatly to the suicide of someone I really care about. Avoiding the issue is no answer either. Convince her you care and want to help, get her to contribute to a care plan that she can stay with. There are options available and she needs to find out what works for her.

Answer 5

Unfortunately the only way that you can force her to get help is if she is a threat to herself or to others. That would be called a 302 procedure. It's a involuntary psychiatric commitment. A voluntary psychiatric commitment is called a 201 procedure and she would have to willingly submit to doing that. Keep trying and look for any signs that she is a threat to herself if you believe she is and then perhaps you can have her committed for her own safety. I wish you luck, I know it's not easy, and I've been in a very similar circumstance before so I know how it can be.

Answer 6

i know it seems different but tell her that you are having some problems with whatever in your life ask her if she will come with you to your support/therapy group. hopefully once there she will be able to let go and realize she has a problem that needs to be evaluated. Remember that what she is going through is really difficult, depression really does affect people hard. Make her feel special, so she will be able to talk about it. Talking really does help. if you can help her with the first step by seeing that she is not along i believe it will help her open up
Good Luck

Answer 7

(I have a sister that battles depresion but it's easier said then done...) Her father comitted suicide and she dosn't have her mom to cry too. Insted of trying to get her help be her help. Listin to what she has to say... pamper her a little. Make her feel that she is your one and only sister and YOU don't know what to do without her...

Tell her how much you love her, respect her, understand her ect ect.

Take intrest in what she does and compliment her on little things that maybe mean allot to her...

Answer 8

The truth is you cant make someone get help unless they want it.
Maybe write her a letter telling her that you care deeply about her and that you want to help her find a way to get some help. Maybe even offer to go into counselling with her. Writing her is less confrontational and she may receive it better.
I wish you luck kiddo... its not an easy path for either of you.

Answer 9

Your a good sister, it's hard to convince someone to get help when they don't think they need to. Tell her you love and care about her and you don't want to lose her, you already lost your family you don't want to lose her. Look up some places for her to talk to someone and just give her the numbers, maybe she will realize your trying to help her. Good luck......Dianne

Answer 10

your best bet would be to talk to a mental health physician and see what they have to say and maybe between the two of you , you can determine whether it needs to be taking a step further like an intervention but other than that you cant really force her to do anything yeah yuo could put her in an institution but what if just talking to the dr. is all she really needs I hope it works out