{"id":80,"date":"2015-02-18T16:51:14","date_gmt":"2015-02-18T21:51:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/avada.theme-fusion.com_demos\/hosting\/?p=80"},"modified":"2017-03-21T20:45:23","modified_gmt":"2017-03-22T00:45:23","slug":"supportive-relationships","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.amyork.ca\/community\/zz\/supportive-relationships\/","title":{"rendered":"Supportive Relationships"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Having a \u00a0good support system is one of the best ways to treat mental illness.Although not everyone has access to a good support system unfortunately. This can be due (but not limited to) to moving, death in the family, immigration or family stress.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>A general definition of a good support system means that:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The individual is regarded with respect and empathy<\/li>\n<li>The support system aims to understand and support the individual<\/li>\n<li>Maintains a patient attitude.<\/li>\n<li>Does not invalidate an individual&#8217;s feelings<\/li>\n<li>Is generally reliable and consistent in their demeanor and actions towards the individual<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>If someone you know is suffering from mental illness and you wish to help, consider attending family support group meetings, volunteering, spreading advocacy or starting a family education plan. This can increase your knowledge in the field in order to help better understand the one suffering.<\/p>\n<p>However, if you want to help an individual access resources during a crisis \u00a0you can direct them to a crisis\/talk phone line, psychologist, hospital, social worker etc. These are professionals and are the best at knowing what to do in these situations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Having a \u00a0good support system is one of the best ways to treat mental illness.Although not everyone has access to a good support system unfortunately. This can be due&hellip; <a class=\"continue\" href=\"https:\/\/www.amyork.ca\/community\/zz\/supportive-relationships\/\">Continue Reading<span> Supportive Relationships<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":1335,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[64],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.amyork.ca\/community\/zz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.amyork.ca\/community\/zz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.amyork.ca\/community\/zz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amyork.ca\/community\/zz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amyork.ca\/community\/zz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=80"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.amyork.ca\/community\/zz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amyork.ca\/community\/zz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1335"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.amyork.ca\/community\/zz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amyork.ca\/community\/zz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amyork.ca\/community\/zz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}