Mine And My Friends Depression

Dealing with depression is one thing, but also dealing with friends who have depression at the same time can really be harmful.
As I think I've said earlier I have a friend who also suffers from depression. This is both a good and bad thing. The good thing about it is when one of us is slipping down, or needs cheering up, the other one will know pretty much what to say to try and help them, and that can be helpful.

But the flipside of that is that if one of us is down, and the other is happy, that can lead to detrimental effects on either person. If the happy person is staying happy, it can make the down person feel even worse for not being happy as if the happy friend is telling the down friend that "I'm happy and I have depression, why can't you be?"
Or maybe that's just me.
It means the person who is down can stop fighting, and get dragged down deeper.
Also if the difference is moods is that great it can also bring the happy person down. I find that when I'm down, I listen to down music. And it makes me feel not as bad. But if I do that and my friend is happy, it brings them down because they are listening to the same bad music, especially if we are hanging out together. It can cause one of us to be dragged down to the place that they've fought their way out of.

My version of depression seems to be a perpetual low mood, whereas my friend has the huge moodswings. So that often means that I'm doing alright for a normal day, and he goes down. This ends up dragging me down furter than I would normally like to go. And then he rebounds back a little up to where I was, leaving my stuck in the place I fought so hard to get out of.

So both a good and bad thing. This is jut me and my friends, I find that dealing with depression is a really difficult thing sometimes. Overall though it has it's good points but I know that overall, it's bad, and ends up dragging people down in the long run. But sometimes being dragged down in the long run doesn't matter if A) you have those little moments of happiness and B) if you have somebody who feels as bad, as down and as dark as you do that will go through it with you. Sometimes it doesn't matter how bad it feels in the long run. Sometimes you only think of now.

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Samantha.