Managing Friendships During A Depressive Episode

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Seek professional help

Your friends will help you as much as they can, but therapists exist for a reason: therapy is a place where the expectation is that the entire conversation will be about you. And therapists are trained to help. In a friendship, the expectation isn’t typically that conversation will revolve entirely around one person, so it’s important to get that in counseling.

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