A few months ago, I was talking to one of my professors about my depression. She suggested some things that I could do to make myself feel better. She also suggested that I speak to my family doctor to get antidepressants. I'm starting to consider seriously doing this, but every time I do think I actually will, I always back down because I'm doubtful and think I can't because I'm too scared.

The semester is over and I would like to keep in touch with this professor in the meantime. I have another class with her next semester. I'd like to just let her know that I'm thinking about taking her advice. My problem is I just don't know how to say it. I feel like I'll just be emailing her out of the blue with no real purpose other than to bother her, because the class is over. I also worry that she'll think that I'm a burden and be like,"Why are you telling me this? This is too much information. I don't really care about my students' personal lives." I don't know how to word the email so to make sure she doesn't think something like that.

She just seems like she actually cares about me and I'd like to thank her for that. She's the first person in a very long time that I've actually felt like I'd be able to connect with, but I guess I could be misreading her. I'm not very good at figuring out who people are. Since our conversation, she really hasn't spoken to me much at all so I'm really not sure if she cares about me or not. I wouldn't be surprised if she didn't though. Yesterday we were talking for a minute and she told me it was a pleasure to have me in her class and I didn't answer her. She was trying to get me to smile and I didn't. Now, I think she thinks I'm a jerk and a really rude person. I wasn't ignoring her but now I feel really bad about not speaking to her. I feel like I need to apologize to her too.

What would you say to her? Do you think sending her an email would be inappropriate? Any advice would be extremely helpful.