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Anybody can be stricken by a crisis at any time, even your loved ones. If this particular problem were to arise, as their relative, it would be down to you to help them beat their plight as best as you can. You don’t have to be a trained professional in this assistance. No matter who you are or what you do, you will be able to help.

Here’s what you should do if a family member of yours ever faces a crisis in life:

Get them the exact support that they need

No matter what crisis has befallen them, your family member is going to need support to help them beat their plight. As you are not the one suffering from the problem, you will have enough outside perspective on the matter to understand what kind of support they need. You shouldn’t let this power of yours go to waste. Regardless of whether they take kindly to you doing so or not, you need to go out there and get them the exact level of support that they need.

This support could come in all sorts of shapes and sizes. It could entail you getting a group of your family member’s closest non-family friends together, for instance, in order to hold an intervention for them if they are suffering from alcohol or substance addiction. Or, if they need more intense support to help them beat this specific kind of crisis, then you should enroll them onto a substance abuse and mental health rehabilitation program, such as that offered by Forward Recovery. For more information on the therapeutic services that they offer to their patients, be sure to check out Forwardrecovery.com. The point is, whatever level of support your family member needs, make sure you get it for them because they sure aren’t going to get it for themselves.

Listen to them

Sometimes, all your family member will need is someone to talk to. You can provide them with this service, whether you’re a professional therapist or counselor or not, so there really is no excuse for you not to sit down and listen to them.

In order to be able to cope with what you hear and provide your loved one with feedback that will benefit them in their bid to overcome their personal crisis, you should:

  • Remember that everything about the problem will seem magnified to your family member, so don’t tell them that they are over-dramatic
  • Not provide them with opinions until you are sure they are ready to handle them
  • Try to refrain from expressing your own feelings about the matter, even if what they tell you shocks you
  • Never feed their need to indulge in self-pity. It’s good to push them to get things off of their chest, but not if it’s going to make them more sorrowful

If a family member of yours is ever in crisis, you should take it upon yourself to help them beat their problem. You’d expect them to do the same for you, wouldn’t you?

Heather Brummett

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