[manaboutown]

From the information about her you posted your friend should see a psychiatrist ASAP as she could be clinically depressed and require psych meds and likely some counseling to carry on with her life. If your friend's physician is unable to give her a referral perhaps your physician might be able to do so.

I used to date a really good psychiatrist but she practices in Newport Beach, CA. My friend told me she once had seen a man who within a three day period suffered three terrible losses and was clinically depressed. He was fired from his job, his mother passed away and his wife left him. She prescribed some psych meds for him and he soon recovered. My friend told me she had been an anesthesiologist and discovered she was "good with the chemicals" so she became a psychiatrist.