Friend with PND

[monkeypinkmonkey]

Hi everyone,
I was wondering if anyone would be able to help. My best friend has just confirmed my suspisions and told me she has PND. As a friend I was wondering what I can do to help? She is rather shy about admitting any kind of issue, so HUGE step for her to admit this to herself let alone me. I just want to know what to be able to do help her without interfering? Any suggestions would be welcome.

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I would say just to let her know you're there for her whenever she needs you. Try and keep in touch with her even if she makes no effort with you.....ring, text or email her just to chat.
If she's up to it arrange a lunch out or night in with a DVD, bottle of wine. She might not be up to actually going out on the town iykwim.
Basically just be a good friend.

Obviously really depends on her personailty and how well you know her, but in my experience, having someone commit to helping and/or visiting at a certain time each week really helps. It gives you something to look forward to and focus on when times are tough.

So, for example, could you commit to minding her child/ren for 2 hours once a week so that she can go for a walk, or have a rest or whatever?

Depending on her personalitym=, it may be best to 'insist'. When I had PND, I would have loved someone to say "I'd really love to come 'round and help, so what about I come at such and such a time and take the baby out for 2 hours"...rather than "let me know if I can do anything to help", which made me feel like the ball was in my court and I didn't want it to be.

Thanks very much for your help. I was planning on asking her for a walk once a week, but if shes not up to it just a coffee I suppose. She's really not into being asked how she's feeling so i'm liking the idea of just saying i'm here.