I'm BP, and I just recieved news that my niece just had a suicide attempt. Her parents, knowing that I've struggled with depression my entire life want me to come over and talk to her about it. I think they expect me to tell her ways to cope and how to deal with (a possible) clinical depression... How do I give advise on something I don't even know how to deal with? I know her mother is vehemently against the idea of "medicating her children", so if it does turn out to be BP, I'm not to sure I could convince her to take medical action even if her crap insurance would cover psychiatric... I'm really at a loss on what to say today, so any advise would be extreamly helpful. I have no idea what to do here...