Category: Dealing with friends with health and/or emotional problems
Coping with a depressed friend
A young woman can no longer sustain her current relationship with a depressed friend.
When a friend expresses suicidal thoughts
A young woman faces a dilemma when her friend expresses suicidal thoughts.
Exhausted: When a friend needs more than a friend
If a relationship leaves you feeling totally exhausted, you may need to bow out.
My friend is threatening to kill himself
Friends can’t take changes when someone is depressed and talking about suicide.
A young teen worries about her best friend
Their parents’ marriage change their best friend relationship.
My friend has Borderline Personality Disorder
It can be very stressful to maintain a friendship with someone with a borderline personality disorder. QUESTION Hi Irene, I have a friend who was first diagnosed with schizophrenia and then with borderline personality disorder. Some days, she seems perfectly cheerful. Other days she has hallucinations and is suicidal. I’ve been trying to be as […]
Chronic pain and friendship – A discussion on PainResource.com
Lisa Davis of PainResource.com asks The Friendship Doctor some questions about chronic pain and friendship.
Drained by a profoundly depressed friend
It can be extremely frustrating to deal with a depressed friend—but bear in mind that depression is a real illness, not a flaw in character.
Guest Post: What do you say to a best friend who has cancer?
My only clue was that my best friend had started detailing eating healthier foods in our almost daily email correspondence. She called on a Wednesday evening to tell me she had breast cancer and was having a mastectomy on Friday.
Friendship: In sickness and in health
I was close friends with a woman for several years. Six months ago, she abruptly ended the friendship. Two months prior to the end of the friendship, I was going through cancer radiation treatments and could not devote the time and energy to her that she seemed to need to feel satisfied with the friendship.
