Originally Posted by Taxman

This feels awful. So, you know the feeling when someone you really care for, is having troubles and you feel like you can do nothing to help?

So, one of my friends, one of the best ones, has a depression. She was seeing the schools psychologist for a while last year, but she quit and said she's getting better.
Last autumn it started again, or maybe it never went out and she just pretended she was allright. It has been clear that she hasn't been totally allright, but it seemed like it was still an improvement. But it was not.
When we finally found out that she was trying to hide it, she admitted the whole thing. Allright, I was suffering a mild depression for awhile, but that case of hers, it's not mild. It's very serious. She said she's not self-destructive, but yet she admits she's been hurting herself. And that she was for a while a bit suicidal, even.
Still, she refuses to accept help and it's a miracle she even admitted it, but thus is an awful feeling. How can anyone help her if she refuses to accept help? And it's terrible to feel constant fear. And when someone you really care suffers, you don't feel good yourself.