Hello.
My friend, who is very bright, struggles with extremely severe depression. I've been helping her, or trying to, at least, for a long time, now. I don't know whether I'm just not doing enough or if she is sick of me or something, but she has fallen back on excuses like, "you just don't get it" whenever I ask her why she doesn't take her medicine, or why she refuses to change things that she knows are just hurting her. I know she isn't dumb, and so it makes me wonder whether or not she really does want to improve. I don't know, I don't know. Am I just insensitive? It almost seems to me that she wants attention, and that some (not all) of her negative feelings are teenage angst that she's taking too seriously, but that doesn't seem to go over well... Which I understand completely. I don't know, I don't know. Does anyone have any insight into this problem? I'm sorry if I sound like a blithering idiot to everyone. I'm sorry I don't seem to be the person she needs.