Posted by fallsfall on September 29, 2003, at 9:09:05
In reply to Re: The Human Loss :-(, posted by Susan J on September 29, 2003, at 8:44:12
It took a couple of months for me to go to therapy. First, I had been going to see my GP for maybe 6 months for back pain. Finally, he said to me that we could do one more set of tests, but if they came back negative that we would need to talk about depression. Talk about panic!!!!! I cancelled a followup appointment. A couple of months later my best friend confronted me about my unreasonable behavior. I would have trusted her with my life, so I had to listen. I put two and two together and made an appointment.
My biggest issue was that I was scared of what it would mean to be depressed. My logical mind said that if I ignored it, it wouldn't be true 8^).
Do you have a good relationship with her? Could you leverage your experience with depression to get through to her? Would she take an online depression test - just to see? Denial is so big with depression, if you can get more than one person from different perspectives to talk to her around the same time she might get the idea.
Good luck
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