Everyone's a Psychologist... or so they think...

Scenario time: if one of your friends is down in the dumps/depressed about something, are you the kind of person that'll do whatever it takes to cheer them up or look on the brighter side of things? Or would you rather not get involved in their problems?

Again, another straightforward thread from me.

I would put myself in her place, and cheer him/her up. Although the times I've done that can be counted and most of the times I can't help them 'cause they're all far away.

I would cheer them up to the very best and look at the good side.

I usually try my best to cheer them up. Doesn't seem fair to just ignore them.

I would try to cheer them up, if possible. I'd end up making an idiot of myself doing so.

My best friend was really down when her grandmother was being hospitalized and they thought she was dying. After a while, I stopped trying to directly make her happy and just talked her through it. So apparently that works, in some situations.

I'll try to cheer them up if I can, of course.

My preferred method is through distracting them with something fun because that's how I myself deal with moods like that. It's probably not the healthiest way, but I'm obviously not very good at dealing with my own emotions so I rarely have any idea how to approach others in that regard. I'm always willing to lend an ear if someone just wants to vent about their problems which is usually enough. Otherwise I can also attempt to give lame advice or actually talk about things with less venting and more heart-to-heart but I don't feel like that would go down well so I always hope it won't come to that since I never really know what to say.

Psh, i'm great at cheering people up.
I've even gone so far as to put myself where they are/in their situation to be able to understand it better.
The funny thing about problems, issues, and bad scenarios though, is that if you realise how pathetically short life is then you won't be bothered by them.

Life is short.
And i've honestly learned the hard way that you shouldn't squander it away in worry, regret, and self-pity. As such, I will allow none of my friends to.

IRL? If I notice something is wrong, I ask them what they'd prefer. If they don't want me in their business, it's better to ask than just assume they want to involve me. If they do, then as a friend I try whatever I can to help them and whatever is best for them in that situation.
Online? If they mention it to me, I;m assuming they want to talk about it because why bring it up in the first place then?

I always try to find a way to cheer my friends up if possible. If I can tell it is really personal I won't push too hard, but I always let them know that I am there for them.

I would try to figure how to make their problems better, if I can not I will leave them to figure it out for themselves.

Well, something like this happened recently, and while all I wanted to do was to cheer them up, I just couldn't think of the right thing to say. I certainly did feel bad for quite a while afterwards. And that's my problem in these kind of situations. Unless I know the person well enough to know exactly what to say, I'm just gonna be fumbling around with whatever possible thing I could say to cheer them up in my head, and always end up with the conclusion that I'm gonna end up sounding like a dork.

If it's something serious then I'm good at 'rationalising it away'; generally I'd rather leave well enough alone, as I would want to be, myself.

I'll give it a shot. If there's no promise of progress, then I'm stepping out. Life is too short to go neck-deep into someone else's problems uninvited.

I try to do whatever I can, but the problem is I'm really bad at it so often I either make it worse or just make no difference whatsoever which makes me feel really bad :P

I would help the person in whatever way I can, provided if the person approached me. If I knew the thing and the person didn't approach me, I would pretend it didn't happened cos there would always be a reason why he/she didn't approach me.