Review for Mental Illness: A Support Guide for Families and Friends : This book is incredible, I have never been so frightened reading a book and yet so riveted that I couldn't stop reading. I loved this book. It grabbed me from the first page and I had trouble putting it down. Read it, you won't be disappointed.
Mental Illness: A Support Guide for Families and Friends info
Mental illness can be overwhelming—not only for the person suffering with the condition, but also for family, friends and caregivers. When a mental illness occurs in a family, as it did for Stephen Jacobs in 2005, it can be devastating. Some of the questions he had to answer were:
• How can I best support my ill family member?
• I am feeling overwhelmed myself; how am I going to cope with this?
• What is going to happen to my family, my career, my finances, my life?
• How can I make effective decisions that I may be required to make?
• What am I to do with all the anger, guilt, and depression that I feel?
• How can I begin to regroup and start building a life again?
• Who has t
