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How to Help A Friend Or Someone Caught By Depression On Facebook


Depression is undermined – we all know that since not all of us have that kind of feeling. But after tragic deaths of some known people, depression has been taken seriously by a lot of people. And although the population shouldn’t have waited for these things so they believe that depression is real, it actually opened the eyes of many. They started to look deeper into someone’s heart. In addition, people started realizing to consider a person’s thoughts in relation to theirs.


Facebook has its way to help people with depression. Being the top social networking site of our generation, it’s capabilities play a big role in this dilemma we have. From a survey conducted this year, over 2.01 billion people are active monthly users of Facebook. Imagine that number and consider how many of these people have depression. It might be a little less but at least reaching out is a grand gesture.

So in this article, we will be guiding you on how you can help these people. In addition to that, we’ll also be teaching you other kinds of help you can do for your friends on Facebook.

Read: How to enable Secret Conversations in Facebook Messenger

How to help someone with depression on Facebook

You know when you open a Facebook friend’s profile, you would see the following:

  • You’re Friends ✓
  • You are Following ✓ them
  • The option to message them and;
  • The ellipsis (Three-dotted line) which would make you pick: (Report, Poke, Block and See Friendship)

From the ellipsis, select Report. No, you won’t report them of harassment, fraud, or any other negative thing. It’s where Facebook keeps the path to helping a friend out.

To give you a better understanding, here’s what it looks like:

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