What’s happening?
Patrick and Alice – our adolescents who grew up with mentally ill parents – help you free of charge and anonymously in our e-advice for adolescents or in peer chat (Monday and Tuesday evenings).
- Is your father or mother often unusually different, tired or depressed??
- Has your father been impatient and irritable for a long time and yells at you for every little thing?
- Your mother drinks a lot of alcohol?
- Your father is more sensitive than usual and can hardly cope with everyday tasks?
- Do you therefore have to help a lot in the household or do you feel responsible for your siblings?
What’s up with my parents?
Your mother or father may have a mental illness.
This can lead to difficult situations in your family because the sick person can often no longer control their feelings. Affected parents suffer a lot.
It is very important that you know that you are definitely not to blame.
Your family is not an exception. Mental illnesses are among the most common illnesses in Switzerland. Approximately every second to third person is mentally ill at some point in their life. How this can affect the whole family is explained in our short films by Emily and Michi.