Someone very close to me has struggled with paranoid thoughts and depression in the past. Then, they got much better (at least it seemed like it to everyone around them + me) but now their thoughts are slipping again. They have had bad luck looking for jobs and recently, a prospect fell through that they were very excited about. It's affecting them a lot and I feel so helpless. They listen to our attempts to reason with them and say they get it but it just comes back again. Any advice at all would be incredibly helpful (ahh and going to a professional is not a possibility right now at all). Thank you in advance.