Ask David: The Fear of Being Abandoned

Living with Someone Who's Depressed

Negar asks: How can I overcome my fear of being alone or being abandoned?
Stan asks: What are your tips on living with someone suffering from anxiety or depression? They can sometimes be demanding or argumentative!
Stan Asks: How can we protects ourselves from not feeling down during and after spending social time with anxious and / or depressed people because they express anxious or depressing thoughts to us. It seems to me that we must start to believe the distorted negative thoughts that the anxious or depressed person transmits to us, so we start to feel the same negative emotions the other person feels.

Dailly Mood Log
Empathy
Positive Reframing
Deserted Island Fantasy
Cognitive Flooding
Please Predicting Sheet
Experimental Technique
Examine the Evidence
Downward Arrow / Identify Self-Defeating Belief(s) (SDB)
Cost-Benefit Analysis for SDB
Hidden Emotion Technique
Externalization of Voices (with Acceptance Paradox, Self-Defense Paradigm, and CAT, or Counter-Attack Technique)
Identify and Explain the Distortions