They may not want to go out with you. Many people and I report that they can hardly participate in recreational activities during the period of severe depression. First, they have no desire, so anything that seems interesting to us will be boring. Secondly, depressed people will have unbalanced psychology. Seeing that others are having such a good time and you are not interested, you might as well not go.
They may be very dependent on you. If you become the most trusted friend of depression, they may be very dependent on you. The reason is that depressive episodes can lead to psychological retrogression. Generally speaking, when a person has a depressive episode, his mental age will regress to that of a child, which is also a self-protection mechanism.
4. They may be cold to you. Just mentioned that they may be very dependent on you, but there is another possibility that friends with depression will be cold to you, because sometimes they will avoid socializing because of the pain of depression, and then they are unwilling to participate in interpersonal communication. At this time, you may feel that you should not be left out, but don't worry, they will be willing to associate with you when they recover.
Their mood may be a little capricious. Depressed people are very sensitive, and if we are not taken seriously, we will be magnified in their eyes, so it is normal to have emotional repetition. There is no need to make a fuss here.
As I said at the beginning, depression is really difficult to get along with, which is why many people complain about having friends with depression.
People with depression don't hurt others, but mostly attack themselves.
We often see some news that depression hurts people. In fact, depression itself does not hurt people. More often, they will take the way of hurting themselves to attract others' attention.
Recently, we have seen some views that people suffering from depression are kind people or good people.
This phenomenon does exist in reality. Psychoanalysis believes that if a person's aggression is not released, he will turn to attack himself.
Most people with depression have endured or suppressed their true feelings since childhood, so their appearance seems to please others, but their inner anger and pain are often expressed at the expense of hurting themselves, such as self-harm and suicide.