Depression Journal

My friends who (might be) are depressed

Imma change their names and y'all about them

Lee - she has actually been diagnosed with depression, along with GAD, panic disorder, an eating disorder (I think anorexia) dyslexia, PTSD, she cuts, and probably something else.

Can - I'm pretty sure she thinks she's depressed but she definitely exaggerated her "symptoms" she will act like she cant focus but then when a teacher tells her to work she can do it just fine, she always complains about things similar to depression, and also she the behavior just seems like fake depression to me.

Lia - she might actually be depressed, I don't know her all to well but she always texts about "I hate myself" and "I'm sadd (why?) I dunno"

Charlotte - always makes death and sometimes suicide jokes, recently told her family that she needs help.

My cousin Rosa - she has anger problems, and that's all I know, but depression medication is prescribed for anger, and she was going through hard times so she might be depressed
Ok I'm not sure about the next one
Anna - she gets in depressive moods once(ish) a month where she will be really sad and look up depressed stuff, and once she sent a picture of how she saved depressing quotes and one of them was the one at the top so she probably thinks she's depressed, but she might have just related to the crying portion because she definitely doesn't cut on her arms, she wears short sleeves every day.

Ok so if you actually are one of my friends and see this, then you know who you are, probably because of the name. I basically just took out part of the name or changed one or two letters hehe.

One more rantish thing (I should be doing homework but I don't feel like it and I want to rant)
Ok so a few of my friends will use the word depressed when they mean sad, and it really annoys me, because one of them is Anna. They will say things like "ughhh my (fake(I'll explain that in another thing)) girlfriend broke up with meee! I'm so depressed" like girl, you are not depressed, when you are depressed, you spend almost all day hating yourself, feeling sad, and you drop activities, you might self harm and have suicidal thoughts, you can stop eating or mess up your sleep. I'm almost positive most of these things don't apply to them. So are they depressed? 95% sure they aren't.

I'm also pretty sure my friends honestly think I've never had to deal with being depressed, or bad anxiety, or suicidal thoughts (I don't think any of them self harm) because whenever they talk about it I join in and say something similar to "yeah I get bad anxiety" and they look at me, then keep talking or say "awh too bad" and then keep talking, but they say it in a way that makes it seem like I'm younger than them (which I'm not) or like I'm an innocent child. I wonder if I told them all of these things. They would either believe me and regret doing those things, or not believe me "cuz I'm an innocent child"
I just told them and I think my friend can understands that she isn't depressed after I told them everything.