how can one cope without having their best friends by their side
Answers
Make new friends.
Remind urself that ur best friend is just far away
Find ways to contact ur bestie
Find new confidants
Life is not impossible without ur frnd...
Depressed people can be acutely hopeless and hard to console, making friendships difficult. Below are some of my thoughts about what friends can do for a depressed person and how friends can maintain appropriate friendship boundaries with the depressed person in their lives.
Validate the pain and move on. We know that distraction is actually good for depressed people, and rumination - going over the same negative feelings over and over - only encourages further depression. This is not to say that you should ignore your depressed friend's proclamations of sadness and misery. On the contrary: validation, listening, and acceptance are helpful, as is encouraging them to also do something other than wallow in their own misery.