# Talk to me about depression

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/talk-to-me-about-depression/259057>\
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [August 9, 2004, 5:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/talk-to-me-about-depression/259057 "2004-08-09T17:48:49Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 1\
**Page:** 3

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![Harriet\_the\_Spry](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e56c9b/32.png) [@Harriet\_the\_Spry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Harriet_the_Spry)\
**Post date:** [August 10, 2004, 11:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/talk-to-me-about-depression/259057/41 "2004-08-10T23:52:38Z")

</div>

Marco Polo, I know you said you weren’t the right person in Sharon’s life to completely set up a therapy appointment. But speaking from personal experience it might be enough to just firmly tell her you take her problem seriously and she should see a counselor. This is just honesty. I feel it is a more useful type of honesty than telling her she should avoid patterns of negative thinking.

Kind of like if she had some other troubling symptom, as a good friend you would flat out say “you should see a doctor about that” rather than saying “you should try to heal that yourself.”

This response and most of the responses in the thread assume she hasn’t sought treatment yet.

[Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/talk-to-me-about-depression/259057.md?page=2)