depression, ...what to do? Options

[blonde@<3]

my friend is goin thru some rough times and i don't know what to do! i tell her i'm here whenever she needs to talk and no matter how bad everything gets she always has family and friends and everything else. what can i do to maybe lift her spirits a little?

[`Kiwi]

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I wish my friends would be there for me when I
need someone. When I told them I went on anti-depressants and had
to go to counceling they just laughed at me and said my Mom is retarded
for making me go on them.

But um...just keep doing what you're doing. Is she on anti-depressants
or going to counceling? If not, I think you should talk to someone. You
can always talk to a councelier at your school and do it annonymously
and that way your friend wouldn't know it was you who told someone
you think she's depressed. Whatever you do, though, tell someone.

Because I've learned that when you're depressed if you just deny it
its true that you really are. Plus, if she doesn't get help, and she's truly
depressed, she WILL try to do something to herself. Its not a question
of if but WHEN. Because when you're depressed, and if you're not on
medicine or getting counceling, you snap just like that, and it happens.
There's no stopping it even if you never think you'd do anything bad to
yourself in a million years. Your brain just stops functioning and your
body does it. So get someone to help her, hun. <3

Just keep being a good friend and do what you think is right. Even if she
finds out and gets mad, its better to tell someone because she'll thank you
in the long run. ^_^
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