Question Posted Saturday February 26 2005, 8:47 pm
My friend is soo depressed, that everytime I'm with her, she brings me down too. And I try to cheer her up, but she just gives me one of those fake smiles. It is breaking up our friendship now, and I don't want that to happen. What do I do to help her?!
BLONDE911 answered Saturday February 26 2005, 11:07 pm: invite her to some where you cannot be depressed like main event or gameworks go somewhere where you and your friend can have soo much fun. Try to talk to her so you can try to work things out, it always works when you talk about things. If she doesnt want to talk then just go have fun. She might be going through rough times, maybe it will pass one day and everything will be back to normal. hope it works good luck:) [ BLONDE911's advice column | Ask BLONDE911 A Question ]
Shay521 answered Saturday February 26 2005, 9:28 pm: I think you should talk to her.Depression is horrible.It can lead to dangerous things.She could be on pills and instead of helping her they could be ruining her.You should probably ask her.Also she might need to get pills for her depression.You might even need to have a talk with her parents and her.Sometimes that helps.Good luck!
xForeverxForgottenx answered Saturday February 26 2005, 9:10 pm: talk to her about how you feel.tell her that you hate seeing her upset. try to hang out with her more. people tend to be less depressed when their around friends and just hanging out. im the same way, in school i fake a smile all day. but if im just hanging out, then im happy. maybe she should go on some sort of medicine to help her. they really do help. but if she does, really watch her. some of the pills do the opposite effect on people. so it might make her worse.hope i helped any. [ xForeverxForgottenx's advice column | Ask xForeverxForgottenx A Question ]
Karen answered Saturday February 26 2005, 9:01 pm: First of all, do you know why she is depressed? If you do, help her fix that problem that is causing both you and her to be depressed or down. You need to talk to her and tell her that her being depressed is breaking up your friendship and that she needs to be happier and try to fix her problem of being depressed. To help her, you can try finding out why she is depressed and help her fix it and you just need to be there for her and try your hardest to cheer her up.
-Karen [ Karen's advice column | Ask Karen A Question ]
ImHere4u answered Saturday February 26 2005, 9:00 pm: Take her somewhere where she can't help but have fun. Lyke a comedy movie(hitch is a good one), bowling is never boring. Stuff like that to make her smile for real. Stuff lyke that never fails and she'll be so giggly around you that it'll be back like old times.
Wowitzbrit answered Saturday February 26 2005, 8:57 pm: Aww I'm sorry. It's kind of hard to bring your friend up when she's down like that. Try taking her somewhere really fun. Like if you go to the mall or somewhere, bring a camara and take funny pictures of each other. Or take pictures of people you don't even know without their permission and laugh at some of the expressions that make when you do that, its really funny. Just try something that she used to enjoy. Since she is depressed she probably hasn't done anything really fun so do something really fun. If that doesn't work, make her talk to you, I know she'll want to talk about it but she'll probably hesitate at first. Don't let this break up your friendship, she really needs you. Just imagine if you were depressed, what would you want? People that are depressed don't like to open up so just try and talk to her. Good luck.
charmed-cherry21 answered Saturday February 26 2005, 8:56 pm: You need to keep trying to cheer her up thats about all you can do. You need to be there for her. And I know you probably think that my advice is stating the obvious. But really hun thats all there is.
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