At some point in your life, you’re going to experience adversity. It teaches you that you have the strength to overcome most anything that comes your way.
Sometimes, others you know may need help when dealing with their adverse situations. GenuLines reminds you that your experience of self-help puts you in a good position to offer them help.
Helping Others Deal with Adversity
The people you’re trying to help may need to open up about their situation. If they’re denying that it’s occurring, it’s going to be difficult to help them. They won’t accept your offers of help because they don’t believe anything is wrong. Or worse, they’ll get angry with you for even suggesting something is wrong.
A helpful approach
There’s a way to help them realize they have a problem. Ask them how they would handle a similar situation if they needed to help someone else.
This gets them to focus on an outside entity, even if fictitious. This lets them start the process of identifying the problem.
It doesn’t guarantee that they’ll come around. But it can get the process started.
Helping people to recognize the problem helps them take action.
You may want to search for help online. Research before they do so that you can help them when they get to that point of doing the research themselves.
It’s not a bad idea to learn more about the situation. You’ll be better able to help them.
Your adversity experience
If you’ve dealt with the specific situation before, that will speed the process. The person you’re helping can ask questions about your experiences and what you did to cope or get through it.
You will likely have a list of resources prepared from your experiences. You can volunteer to go with them to any support groups or meetings.
But once they get started they may be able to do it alone.
Helping others deal with adversity is not an easy task. You should expect to get resistance, especially in the beginning.
But, if you can get them to see the problem, they may be ready to take action towards the recovery process. It can be rewarding to know that you helped people start on their road to recovery.
JohnK 4-30-2019
Overheard: “The bravest sight in the world is to see a great man struggling against adversity” ~Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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