Story Of My Friend Who Went Through Depression
Posted in Depression by depressiondoctor on May 14th, 2006
I have seen my friend suffering through depression right in front of my eyes and have seen her going too low in her moods, which was really pretty hurting. I have had problems communicating with her and that was very distressing for me.
I was unable to see my friend go through such lows in her life where she was unable to share anything with me and I honestly didn’t know what to do. I went to online forums that are specific for people who are going through the phases of depression and saw people talking about the misery that they had been going through and how they are overcoming it.
Those forums helped me a lot as to how I would be able to have a chance of helping my friend out. I also sent mails to a couple of groups who were helping people who were suffering from depression and they gave me a few tips and ideas as to how I can help my friend. Now I had some basic knowledge as to how I would be able to tackle this and help my friend come out of this miserable state she was in.
The first thing that I did was that I told her about the good days that we had and how we enjoyed different things to just loosen her up so I could get inside and know as to what is the problem that she is going through right now. To my surprise, she started responding on the different things that I was discussing and we just had a really good time that day and I never touched on the things that she was suffering through.
On that day when she started responding, I asked her that we will go out for dinner and it has been pretty long since we had such a time and she was just not feeling ready for it, but I pushed thing s a little and she agreed. Then we had a very nice day where we enjoyed dinner and had a good long drive. I was just waiting for her to share her feelings rather than me asking her as to what she is going through and she finally started to talk and told me as to what was taking her deep down and I told him that we can find a way to solve it and we will solve it and she does not have to worry about that.
The next day we sat down and find a way to solve her problem and then she was really happy finding a solution to it. You just cannot imagine as to how happy I was seeing my friend coming out of that feeling of depression and I felt really good inside that I was able to help my friend.
The people who are going through depression just hide themselves more if they are pushed, we just need to comfort them and give them space so that they could come out of their hideouts and share as to what they are feeling and we are all open to listen and help them out from the different things and phases that they are going through.