Do you know anyone around you, who tries so hard to be chirpy during the family get-togethers, or in a friend's birthday party, but the moment the fun's over they look like a poster child for depression ads?
You think to yourself maybe I should go to them, give them a friendly nudge and say:" Hey pal, everything alright?" But in the end you just smile at them, they smile back and that's that.
Next time, go and ask, before it's too late.
In loving memory of my best friend...
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That's a nice way to remember someone, very poetic.
No need to apologize. That's sweet of you. The fact of the matter is that he is always a little boy who used to steal cookies for me in my mind.
Sure thing. Take care.
You are so right dear. "we should ensure them that we would be there for them no matter what." This is literally the best thing a person can do for their friends. Many thanks:)
Thanks a million. Take care of your friend.
I'm so sorry... I know we all say many times that 'everything will be ok', when we perfectly know that it might not happen. But it's like a 'mantra' we need to say.
My friend had a really hard depressive episode last year but now everything is ok again. But you never know... this disease is always there and the worst thing is that there is not much you can do. It's like a personal battle. I can imagine why you feel kind of 'guilty', but probably there wasn't much you could do. Don't torture yourself, because now you're doing a good thing sharing this message here.
Hugs.
Thank you, I feel like it was my duty to share this, I owe it to him.
Oh I'm very sorry for your last line...
About your topic here, I guess we all have felt like that in some moments of our lifes. But for some people is more hard to get over it than others... One of my best friends has a propensity to feel depression and I've seen how hard that can be (because it's also a disease still not very well understood by society) It's something very difficult to deal with; as you said, sometimes you don't know what to say to someone who is going through that. So at the end, you just smile at them and hope for everything to be okay... one day.