Dear Katie:

In your previous thread, less than a month ago,  you wrote: “I have always had depression but it was something that I could manage and often hide below the surface. Last year I moved abroad.. found myself in the deepest depression.. isolated myself from all my friends and stopped responding to their text messages”-

Yesterday you wrote that you want to salvage some of those friendship, but you “worry that they will not have interest in becoming close again”- I suggest that you contact one of the friends you neglected and tell that person that you regret neglecting the friendship. If and as communication continues, don’t hide your depression anymore from a (good) friend. Share with your friend in moderation, reveal, and that may lead to “becoming close” more than before!

anita