Questions tagged [depression]
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How do I mend a friendship that divided us apart for a couple months?
I've been friends with a girl for a few years now. We used to be very close friends. However, after she told me last November how she got diagnosed with clinical depression, she has been creating bad ...
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How to reach out to an estranged coworker without coming across as nosy?
I have worked with Alice for five years, and we had a pretty standard work relationship, not really friends, but appreciated each other.
We did not talk since I left the company two years ago.
I had ...
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Dealing with a depressed partner with personal hygiene issues
My wife and I have been living together for about three years now (we just got married under a year ago). Recently, I have been having several issues regarding my wife’s personal hygiene. I’m looking ...
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How to tell my in-laws that they are making my spouse depressed?
My wife has been experiencing anxiety and increasingly, depression, as a result of her relationships with family treating her like she is worthless. It is never by words that they give this message to ...
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Preventing certain topics from being raised by a close relative
My friend (I got her consent to ask this question here) is currently dealing with major depression and anxiety issues (she is currently on therapy and medication), which started after a messy breakup -...
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Can't get through to someone who needs help
I've known someone through a social activity group for about a year. At first he seemed a bit odd, but more or less harmless. He's a smart and funny guy and it can be good talking with him in short ...
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How to talk to a friend about her concerning social media posts?
Recently one of my friends has been writing concerning posts on her social media. She said something like "my life has always been so hard", and "what's the point of living if there is so much ...
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How to support my friend who is going to have surgery?
One of my best friends is going to have a cardiac surgery and she is only 17. Unfortunately she is in a high-functioning depression and I really don't know what to say or what to do for her to give ...
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How to deal with a depressed person who thinks people are uniting against her?
Let's call this person Alice.
Alice is currently in therapy and taking drugs to treat a long lasting depression. Alice is also quite egocentric i.e. likes to be in everybody's focus and tries to get ...
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How do I safely ask my girlfriend about her past depression?
We became a pair of BF and GF recently, at which point we had already been university schoolmates for 2 years.
At the very first few days of acquaintance, during a casual talk about our experiences ...
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How to stop recurring conflict in family home
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I am an early 20's British Male. I moved home after University and am suffering from somewhat severe depression.
As I got towards graduating, my mother suggested I moved home instead of ...
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How to ask a possibly depressed, not-so-close friend if they need help
Context: Western European country, people involved are in their late 20's
I was at a party at a friends house, where I met a mutual acquaintance, whom I have met only a few times in the past.
We had ...
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How to discuss future with disengaged and possibly depressed partner?
This is my first question on the Interpersonal Skills StackExchange. I have browsed through a number of earlier questions regarding identifying and approaching depression but I have not quite found ...
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How can I help my friend who is depressed and isolated?
I have an old friend who has, over the past few years, gone through several cycles of depression, burnout, and isolation to the point of barely leaving his room. Often I don't find out how bad it's ...
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How to avoid being perceived as cold or rude to people while only being depressed?
Some days I feel more depressed and anxious than normal and hence I am not very sociable and talkative like I normally would be. I worry that my friends would take it as being rude to them though I do ...
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