Depression can cause a suffocating feeling, and can make one feel as though they are completely alone and have nowhere else to go - even if they are in a relationship. These feelings can overwhelm the person suffering, but it also can be trying for the other person in the relationship. This article gives insight on how to love someone with depression.
Depression isn't a state of being, it's an affliction. Like a cold or the flu, it can come out of nowhere and hit them. Or think of it another way: your friend is in an abusive relationship with depression. Depression has cut off their ability to have other friends. Depression has crippled their social life. Depression is constantly putting them through hell, making everything more stressful, making them doubt themselves, making everything difficult. Depression has beaten them -- to the point where they will have actual physical pain. Depression has taken control of their life, to the point where it's easier to just feel nothing.
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