Supporting Someone with Their Mental Health
“I was having really low mood and he just listened, that’s all he done, he just listened to what I was saying. Picked up on things, asked me some more prompting questions… just listened, and I felt like a person”.
We can all help improve the mental health of those around us, and this does not always require specialist knowledge. Simply listening can be the number one best thing you can do for someone else.
In a time of overstretched mental health services, community and peer support have been found to have benefits both for those providing the support, and for those receiving it.[21] Peer-led approaches in the LGBTI community are particularly important as there are often shared experiences and understanding that mainstream services may not provide.
Subsections
- Recovery-based approaches to supporting each other
- The art of listening
- From the community, for community leaders and those who wish to support others…
Footnotes
- Alliance, See Me and LGBT Health and Wellbeing, ‘A National Conversation on Mental Health: Community Discussion’ (podcast) (Return to reference [20])
- Scottish Recovery Network (2020) ‘Meaningful connections: How peer support in Scotland adapted to a digital world during Covid-19’. [Accessed 08/05/2021] (Return to reference [21])
