Never Let Go: How to Parent Your Child Through Mental Illness
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How to help your child with mental illness through partnering, not parenting.
Never Let Go is a supportive and practical guide for parents looking after a child with a mental illness. Suzanne Alderson understands the agonising struggle of bringing a child back from the brink of suicide, having spent three years supporting her own daughter through recovery. Her method of ‘partnering, not parenting’ has now helped thousands of other parents through her charity, Parenting Mental Health.
Combining Suzanne’s honest personal experience with expert input from psychologists, this book provides parents with the methods and knowledge they need to support, shield and strengthen their child as they progress towards recovery. Chapters include a background to the mental health epidemic, why a new method of parenting is crucial, how to change your thinking about mental health and practical advice on solutions to daily problems including accepting the new normal, dealing with others, and looking after yourself as well as your child.
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Additional information
| Publisher | 1st edition (1 Oct. 2020), Vermilion |
|---|---|
| Language | English |
| Paperback | 320 pages |
| ISBN-10 | 1785043315 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1785043314 |
| Dimensions | 13.34 x 2.54 x 21.59 cm |
by CFPSH
I’m half way through this book and I needed it to support my teenage daughter. It helps, it really does. Because if this book I am now also doing the course.
by Kaye
If your child has any kind of anxiety or problem this helps to to parent in a different way stopping to think about how the words/actions affect your child. It shows you how to put your childs needs before school and others letting them learn/ develop at their own pace. You realise you are not alone and can get advice from this book and the website. It has helped me and my family through some very difficult times. Thank you Suzanne
by Slayer03
I thought I was on my own with what I was experiencing with my child until I read this book. Wow just wow. Fantastic read so helpful and so much information. Would certainly recommend this book.
by Amy
This isn’t exactly the kind of book you find yourself wanting to read as a parent, but I wished I had read this book before I actually needed it. I truly feel it would have helped me to notice some early signs of deterioration in my child’s mental health and would have been able to put something in place to prevent him from declining into a world of isolation, severe depression and anxiety.
I was lucky that someone recommended this book to me pretty early on. It has been my Mental Health Bible ever since!
I admire the author, Suzanne for being honest and sharing her and her daughters journey through mental health. Also for all the hard work she puts into getting the help people need into the mainstream.
Parenting Mental Health and extremely isolating and Suzanne makes you feel like you are not alone.
by nicola
I can’t recommend this book highly enough. If you have a child with mental health issues, it is literally life changing.
Brilliantly written from the heart. Very relatable. Just wow.
by M O’Connor
My daughter has been actively trying to end her life for over two years now & due to her ASD & OCD has been a life long struggle.
I can honestly say without the PMH support group and now this book I would still be floundering in the dark and at rock bottom. This journey is one that we should never as parents have to face, neither should our children who should be out there enjoying the best years of their life as opposed to suffering the most debilitating Journeys of their lives, however if you do find yourself in this heartbreaking position then please reach out to Suzanne, buy the book & join our wonderful not so little family, it will not only give you the strength, grit & sheer determination you need to survive this nightmare, but also the insight, understanding and the ability to be able to understand and support both you and your child (which is so much more complex than it sounds) as well as offering solid advice & strength that you desperately need to survive it – if you yourself are facing this can I be the first to send a massive hug ???? to you ????❤️
Also a must have for any friends and family members, to be able to understand and support your nearest and dearest (Again much, much harder than you might think & they need you now more than ever) until this nightmare becomes your reality it is impossible to understand the feelings of guilt, headache, fear & confusion this journey will bring. It can be one if the loneliest paths you will ever travel in you try to face it alone.
Suzanne has the ability to explain and simplify everything from low mood, depression, anxiety, eating disorder, self harm and suicidal ideation in a way that truly resonates and makes sense, this book is now my bible and the group my life line.
Thank you Suzanne for everything you have done & continue to do for myself and our community ❤️
by Mrs Claire J Barrett
I absolutely loved this book. It was like a breath of fresh air, validating what I’d been doing with my daughter through five very difficult years. It also made me understand why I felt the way I did, why I was grieving what we’d lost as a family but now we’re out the other side I can see what we’ve gained – a strong, unbreakable bond and a daughter who as a young adult can stretch herself whilst knowing we have her back every step of the way.
by Aussie Mo
Hubby and I were at our wits end, stressed, terrified that we would lose our 15yo daughter due to her massive depression (since diagnosed autistic with ADHD). Stumbled in desperation upon the Parenting Mental Health FB group and this book. I shudder to think of the state hubby, daughter and I would be in without us learning a way to not just SURVIVE the trauma of your child having terrible time with poor mental health, but to be present in your child’s life in such a way that enables communication and connection versus arguments, tears, slammed doors, and the worst, the scariest, the withdrawn, bleak silence AND supports their journey to recovery, however long it takes.
This book is a life-saver. Written in a supportive compassionate way, by a mum who has been there and now dedicates her life really, to helping other parents find their way through, retain their own sanity, let go of baggage like guilt and societal/family expectations, process their own grief over the child they once knew, who is now ‘gone’, replaced with one who is desperately suffering and when you are in the thick of it, you think that is it, it will be like this forever, they will never be happy, never have a fulfilled life. This book helps you break that cycle of panic and fear, helps you remember to look after your own mental health. Let go of the baggage that’s preventing recovery, but Never Let Go of hope.