Hello

My BFF is struggling with depression at the present and has told me she is trying to keep it together. What is confusing me is that in the last couple of weeks she has become distant from me. When I have seen her she has been a little snappy and I see the sadness in her eyes and her struggle to even smile. Then I saw her with others on another day and she was laughing with them. She has also spent a couple of social evenings out with other people recently. She seems completely different with me.

We have been best friends for quite some time and I know all about her personal struggles. It feels like she is shutting me out and I don't know why. I haven't put any pressure on her to talk and she knows that I will always be here for her.

Is this normal for people suffering from depression to distance themselves form some people and not others?

It makes me very sad.