DON"T LISTEN TO THEM. For them to say killing yourself is the only answer - they are not worth listening to! They are bad people. Find better people. Do you have family? Other friends? Thank God you came here to DS. We are always able to listen and to help. Please tell us more about your situation. What has you feeling so down?

Well there's depression and then there's depression. There's depression as a bad set of emotions that make a person miserable. And then there's depression as an activity of being all long-faced and letting it all hang out and taking everyone's attention up at parties and social gatherings so that nobody else can have any fun.

The genuine silent feeling versus the attention-seeking behaviour.

Huge difference.

The former retains their own and others' respect and can slowly heal from their issues in their own time. The latter wrecks everyone's good time, and eventually gets told that if they feel this bad, they should end it all. Nobody wants them to end it all of course, but they feel the person is caught up in their own psychodrama and manipulating them. And they're over it. So they challenge the emotional blackmail: "end this behaviour one way or the other, we have had enough of it."

If you've driven them to that point you have to take responsibility for that.

If you are genuinely depressed, then go see a doctor or counsellor, get antidepressants and counselling, and sort it out.

Everyone around you will have faced suicide themselves. Half of your friends will have severe depression or anxiety. Can you spot them?

Why not?