My advice to anyone who has ever been admitted due to mental illness :
TIME
Concentrate on you. I cannot begin to imagine what it must be like for a mother or father who has been in hospital to come out and not be able to look after their kids on their own without help. Most kids understand that their parent is needing rest, recuperation and medical assistance but the parent must feel a failure and riddled with guilt. Someone needs to say: It won't all ways be like this, you will get back on track and we understand.

I feel like many health professionals put too much emphasis on how a persons "illness" affects all those around them. And they forget the one in the centre of it all: the individual. Considering they are all ready unwell, making a person feel like a burden can only lead to one solution : suicide.