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If you know someone who is depressed, it affects you too. The first and most important thing you can do to help a friend or relative who has depression is to help him or her get an appropriate diagnosis and treatment. You may need to make an appointment on behalf of your friend or relative and go with him or her to see the doctor. Encourage him or her to stay in treatment, or to seek different treatment if no improvement occurs after six to eight weeks.

These tips are important.
Offer emotional support, understanding, patience and encouragement.
Never ignore comments about suicide, and report them to your friend's or relatives therapist or doctor right away.
Remind your friend or relative that with time and treatment, the depression will lift.

If you never suffered from depression then you really do not know how dangerous it can be. I recall when I first fell into a deep depression. The hardest part was friends and family telling me "everyone gets depressed, snap out of it". If they only knew at that time how bad it was and that their statements along those lines almost pushed me to my grave. I later (after treatment) see that this is how most people that never suffered from a deep depression feel about it, so it is a mind set that has to be broken. I hope people will accept that some people have a chemical imbalance that needs medication to help correct. These people cannot just "snap out of it" on their own.

Just a note here hoping people looking up information for a loved one will read.

On a side note, I will stay focused on the site topics, took some heat for that election post.

Also, I am working on a long blog, or maybe I'll add it as an article on my depression bio, if anyone cares :)...

TTYL

This is a fact, before I started getting the right help I lost a lot in my life.
The problem is that many people that are bipolar do not even know it. They see life as being normal, happy times and sad times. While that is true in life, how we that are bipolar live it is much different.

I want to blog about my finding out I was bipolar and what it cost me in life, as well as how treatment and living can be a road to suicide if you do not have the support you need.

I am going to sit back and write, the best I can, how I found out, what happened next, and how the government can be very cruel to top it off.
I will post a draft article here soon with my disease bio, I think many of you will be surprised.

Back later.

This is a fact, I did not even know how bad getting help and information could be until it hit me in the face.

After a long fight with depression borderline bi-polar I have decided to start this site and bring some help to people on as many topics as I can.

I plan to provide information, resources, and down the line financial aid to those who really need it.

I am going to start slow, please help out here if you can by donating some of your time helping others with information resources and talking to them.

Thank you.
Let's roll.