Ashley Seay
Ashley Seay voted up Retiredkop Retiredkop's answer
Unless you've experienced depression please don't answer cause I need answers from people who have experienced it, thanks. I have an extremely close friend who is going through depression. What is the worst/best thing I could say?

Been there!  In 1989 I went to the doctor to get my test results.  He sat me in a chair, pulled another one over held my hand and said "How is your relationship with God"  I told him it was fine, then he told me I have 18 months to live.  I went to another … Read more

Ashley Seay
Ashley Seay voted up Kayle Smyth's answer
Unless you've experienced depression please don't answer cause I need answers from people who have experienced it, thanks. I have an extremely close friend who is going through depression. What is the worst/best thing I could say?

Thank you all for the answers and please share any more advice you might come up with.  To clarify there's not anything mentally wrong with her, it's not a health thing, it's legitimate situations around her that are causing this. I know some of them, but not many.