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• Intensive care >> Intensive care: experiences of family & friends >> Aged 31-40 >> Interview 13 >> Counselling helped her accept what had happened and start moving forwards with her life again.

In 2006 her husband had liver disease and pneumonia and sadly died in ICU. She has gained strength from having counselling and from her spirituality.

• Intensive care >> Intensive care: experiences of family & friends >> Aged 31-40 >> Interview 23 >> He valued the support outreach nurses had given him and his partner before she was admitted to ICU and would have liked more support from them later o

In 2006 his partner spent four weeks in ICU because of pneumonia. He visited her every day, sharing the visiting with his partner's parents.

• Intensive care >> Intensive care: experiences of family & friends >> Aged 51-60 >> Interview 07 >> She had post-traumatic stress disorder and counselling helped her focus on the present, whilst acknowledging what had happened in the past.

Their son was admitted to ICU in 2005 with bacterial meningitis. It was a traumatic time but he is now back home and has made excellent progress.

• Intensive care >> Intensive care: experiences of family & friends >> Aged 41-50 >> Interview 33 >> She saw a counsellor a month after her husband came back from hospital when feelings from the time he was ill came up again and upset her.

Her husband was admitted to ICU after having emergency surgery. It was particularly difficult looking after other family members as well as visiting her husband.