During adolescence and youth, peer groups are the main references and therefore have a fundamental role; in this sense, having their support promotes good development.

Some guidelines for supporting our friends who are in recovery are:

• Maintain close, consistent, and reciprocal emotional relationships.
• Pay attention to criticism, overprotection, and hostility.
• Having clear communication about the disorder and its management with close friends.
• Assume that recovery processes take time and are not linear.
• To transmit hope.
• Hear.
• To accompany without deciding for the other person.