can i help my "big sister"/best friend i think she's depressed.?

The things you've described could be signs of depression. You say she's been stressed and sad lately. Have you asked her what's going on that she should be stressed and sad about? Do you know anything about her home life?

These are big changes in your friends personality. There are always reasons for depression. It's the knowing or not knowing what lies behind the depression. Does your friend have a bf and they broke off the relationship?

Does your friend hang with other friends who may be a bad influence on her? Even bf can be a bad influence sometimes. You friend may be hiding things from you. Is there a possibility that your friend has gotten into using drugs. Personality changes can also show up when someone is using drugs. I don't want to alarm you, but there is always the possibility of drug use that you are unaware of. It's something to think about when there are sudden personality changes.

Can you talk to you friend openly enough and tell her of your concerns? It may not have anything to do with drugs at all, but I think she needs to see the school counselor. Maybe you could suggest this to her and tell her that you would be willing to go with her if she is afraid to go alone. After all, isn't that what best friends do.

If we see changes in the people we love, we want them to know we see those changes and would like to help if they will let us. Maybe you friend would open up to you if you ask her what's going on and that you are concerned about her and will support her no matter what she's going through. Let her know you'll always be there for her.

I still encourage you to ask your friend if she's will to talk to a counselor with your support. You can't force her to seek help. All you can do is support her and encourage counselling.

The followings may be the reasons that your big sister feel deserted, isolated from others and depressed.

1. Hidden Secrets – The most important and primary reason for loneliness is any sorts of hidden secret. That ordeal becomes more burdensome as time passes. Guilt, anger, or fear of consequences forces us to believe we alone must bear the weight of silence.

2. Lack of Intimacy – Restlessness occurs after sharing something personal with somebody.

3. Loss of Relationships – The loss of a companion leaves a great void in our life. The solitariness escalates as we face obstacles in establishing any new meaningful relationships.

4. Chronic Illness – Chronic illness has a great impact on felling of loneliness.

5. Support/Trust Issues – When faced with disaster, grave illness, or devastating circumstances, we feel scared as if there is no return from that.

6. Love failure- The lovelorn and deserted by someone’s love also contribute in depression and loneliness..

Now to get rid of the unwanted situation,

• Encourage her to accept the separation and isolation. Believe that failure and success in love is relative to a situation. Many people fail while very few succeed in love and in life.

• Do not think it happened to her only. It may happen to anybody at any time. It does not mean that one should take it as a final innings for life.

• Believe that the reasons for loneliness are beyond her control.

• Time will take care of everything. A disconsolate or gloomy situation will not bring any solution now. It may harm her both mentally and physically.

• This is the time to show her mental strength.

• Time it still there. It has not gone for ever. Let her prepare

herself afresh for a new start.

And therefore, help her earn confidence to overcome the isolation.

I know a bit how she is feeling because I was depressed for a while last summer. You could ask her if she wants to talk about it. I know that sometimes talking to my friends about it really helped. Other times though I just wanted to be left alone and deal with it my self. You should let her know that you are always there for her either by phone or text message. This will help if you think she might be suicidal because talking to someone close is really helpful in those times. If she is not eating for long periods of time or physically hurting herself you should get professional help. I think that it is great that you care so much for her. Good friends are really important in these types of situations. Stay close to her and make sure she knows you are always there for her. Hopefully she will get through this, good luck

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Honey this is nothing to fool with. YOU cannot help if she is depressed and she very well might be. YOU need to contact a professional, a school counselor, or even her mother who can get her to a professional. You're not betraying her. If you let her get too far, THAT'S betraying her. She sounds like she needs help and she may need medicine that will help her get better. You need to talk to someone who can help quickly. If nothing else, call a helpline. Call information and ask for one. But you must do something to help her and the best way to do that is get her to an adult who can help her.

The only thing you can do is talk to her and be there when she is ready to share. It may be depression or it may be something going on at home. If you can get her to talk to you about it she might be able to get past. But if it's depression encourage her to find help and talk to someone who can help her. Ask yourself if you are willing to go to someone and say something if you feel her life is in danger.

Whatever it is just be there for the long haul.

Blessings to you and your friend.

Yes! You could talk to her....actually, let her talk and you listen. It could be a temporary depression..everyone goes through that. Ask her about it!

try to find something else that interest her like go out for a movie or shopping and see how see react to that

Ask her if she needs to talk, and if it gets worse, talk to her parents or a relative about what's going on.