I know the title sounds awful but please read on and hear me out. I’ve been struggling with depression for the last four years or so now. As such I’m dealing with a lot right now and it’s hard but I’m somewhat managing. Recently I’ve found out that a lot of my friends are depressed. My best friend in particular has it really bad. It’s mostly because of a girl who makes fun of him for every little thing she can. He has to try and hold back tears most of the time when she talks to him. He’ll sometimes call me after school to talk about everything and I really do want to talk to him and tell him he’ll be alright but it’s just too much for me. I’m left feeling terrible any time he calls to talk about his problems. I feel for him I really do. I want him to be happy because I care about him but when he calls me to talk about how he feels it just makes me feel awful. To top it off one of the days he called I was struggling particularly badly. My high school bullies were spreading lies about me online and I was contemplating suicide. I felt completely invalidated when he and my other close friend spoke about his day but when I brought mine up I was met with silence. I know we’re still too young to understand, I don’t expect a therapist from a group of teens and I understand it’s not a competition for who’s the saddest but being ignored completely was the last thing I needed that day. I don’t know how to tell him because I want to help him but for my own well-being I don’t.