Honestly, what would you say to me, a depressed friend?

[BigBirthdayGloom]

I'm facing up to the fact that I'm really not well again, feel very disinclined to do anything, would rather curl up in bed (I don't-three dc) and feel anxious and irritable. I've just had to stop a couple of the crutches that keep me from really hitting the floor, spending on small treats being the hardest, and I also have lost a regular activity that kept me going.

I want to tell friends, I want to ask for help, but honestly I wonder whether they'll just think I'm being self indgeby, given that I have a lovely home (part of the reason money is tight) and only work a few hours. But I'm feeling increasingly lonely because I'm unable to admit how I feel.
Honestly, how would you react?

Mmm - I think that wondering how your friends will react to your illness is a reasonable thing to have concerns about. We all know that people find it difficult to know how to respond when their friends have physical illnesses like cancer, and its the same with menal illnesses like depression. Not everyone has prior experience, and they worry about saying the right thing. Or they've got their own daft ideas and want to share them with you.

I've found that some unexpected friends have been much more supportive than I would have expected from them, while others find it harder to know what to do or say.

And you're still you, you're still their friend, and you're still the person they've known all this time. You're that person with some added health needs at the moment, but I suspect that at the heart of it, you're still very much you, and still their friend.