Nov 06, 2002 19:34
I'm worried.
A friend of mine's been really depressed for awhile, and it worries me. For all the obvious reasons, of course- I like the kid. I don't want to see anything bad happen to her. I don't want her to kill herself. She's got too much to offer to the world for that. But that's really only part of what bothers me.
I pride myself on being able to write things. It's what I do for fun and profit- I write. And I give myself a lot of credit for being able to write those things well. I've tried my best to make myself able to talk about most anything. I've tried to make myself able to, if nothing else, BS a pretty good opinion on most topics.
I have no clue what to say to help her out.
What does a person who's never really been depressed- who's never seriously contemplated suicide- who's never actually felt like the world really is against him- how does a happy person cheer up a person whose own body is telling her to be depressed? How am I supposed to try and comfort a person who's in a situation I've never really seen anybody else close to me in?
I don't know what to say. And it worries me.