How Do You Help Someone Who Is Having A Mental Brake Down?

Your going to need patience day and night and medical and professional advice and if you can pin point any one thing that seems to trigger upset easily this is where you can help the most this person may require antidepressants for some time the fact that your there to help is great but if it gets too much get extra support through the doctor/counsellor

Hello stotty,
Times change but people hardly change.
And i can speak out of experience as 33 yrs ago i was attending school i came across a womans path who was close to breakdown and all it takes is a lot of time(in my case it took 4 months every day of the week so al i had was the weekend for myself) a good ear and if you can listen good you can help someone either getting back in check with reality as most of the time the breakdown they are heading for is loss of reality perspectives
and if the other party is just telling the person they are worthless they might start believing that in the longrun heading straight for disaster without noticing,so if you can listen carefully give it a shot but don't try to mask your intentions that you would like to help and be prepared that the person you're willingly want to help can call you at the most forsaken hours of the night,and it is not that they will eagerly lay their soul open to you from time to time it is a struggle to get them to open up to you so the discussions can vary from birds to flowers and everything in between and then it is up to you to filter out the essential things that may bother the person sometimes they might look trivial to you but in their eyes it is the biggest hurdle they have to overcome so it is up to you to help them overcome each and every hurdle they seem to find in their life how trivial they might look to you and very carefully help them over them you might wonder when it might finally stop but even that can come as a total surprise all depending how quickly the person opens up to you.
Hope to be of some help to you with this answer.
Dutchman

Having helped a very close friend come out from a mental breakdown, i can give you the answer confidently. First you need to asses why he is mentally down. Sit with him/her talk about general things first, they will automatically after sometime they will come up with their problem. Giving  them full support makes them feel comfortable. Always being touch with them.
It took me 1 month for me to drag a friend from this problem. Thank God.
Hope this helps. Thanx

Your question how to help someone when someone has a mental break down?
Well that consists on many items such as talk to the person to find out some information of what is happening or you could sit them down with a cup of water and say what has got into you any more problems let me know.