I am sorry that you are feeling this way. At where I work, I have a friend who's wife lost a good friend of her's a little more than a year ago. My friend's wife is 53 years old and I think that her friend was about the same age. She must have passed away from brest cancer.

My friend has been telling me that she has been difficult to deal with because of her friend's death. He told me that it's been over a year and that she should be over it by now.

I told him that he should be more understanding on how she feels. This guy has a very positive and outgoing personality. He does not understand depression and anxiety very well. I know because I talk to him about my anxiety and he always says to "snap out of it!" There are certain kinds of people that tragedies just rub right off of them. That's not me. But at least he told me that now he and his wife are reading a book on depression so that he can understand her better.

I have never lost a friend due to death, but I feel that it can be much harder to take than losing your parents, if your parents lived to be very old. There's something about losing a friend around your age that really hits home.