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I have a friend who for most of the years that I was her friend was always so depressed about everything. Her negativity got to me so bad that I stopped all together from talking to her for years because it was just too depressing for me to have to listen to this every day.

I just started to be in contact with her again and now she's a different person. She's not negative about life like she used to be and it's actually very nice to talk to her now. I guess most of her friends had stopped contact with her and she finally went for the help that she needed. She's on meds too now and it's working wonders for her. She was diagnosed as being Bipolar so you can imagine how she was before the meds came into her life.

I think that sometimes it's best that friends back off a bit. YOu can't help somebody that doesn't want to be helped. all the listening and advice in the world will do no good and they end up using you as their crutch without even knowing it.

I'm happy that I backed off for a few years (I had no contact with her at all) because now I have my friend back and she's a pleasure to be around.