Thanks everyone for your input and for sharing your experiences.
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Originally Posted by Shazerac
It's always a risk telling friends. Some people get it and some people just don't. Be prepared to hear all kinds of unhelpful and even hurtful advice. When someone tells me to pray myself into wellness, or make a list of things I'm grateful for I just tell them "thanks for your advice, I tried that. It didn't work for me" and leave it at that.
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That's a good way of dealing with it. I'm going to take that avenue in the future when a friend suggests something like that, and if they don't understand, I am going to try not to take it personally.