Send to a Friend

Glow's avatar

Is it best to let a depressed person overlseep or should one pressure them to get up?

Asked by Glow (1366points) January 24th, 2010

When some one you know is depressed, and they spend most of their day sleeping, should you pressure them to wake up early or should you just let them be and hope they get better with time so long as you are being supportive?

I’m in this situation now and nothing is working…. So I am wondering, should I put more pressure on waking up early? When I say pressure, I mean like going up to the person while its 3pm and saying “please get up!” and not stopping till they do.

I don’t know what the right answer is, hopefully some one else does.

Using Fluther

or

Using Email

Separate multiple emails with commas.
We’ll only use these emails for this message.