Get professional help for him. Make a doctor's appointment and make him go. Go with him and go into the office if necessary. Do not treat depression lightly. It is a serious problem. He maybe cannot think his way through this right now and you should not be trying to lead him if it is affecting your well being as well. This is beyond your level of expertise. Get help for him. :) good luck.

Well, allowing yourself to be dragged into it with him is not helping him - if you get depressed and snap at him it won't help at all! Enlist extra friends. Obtain professional help. Explain why you can't come to see him on those days you feel you really can't cope. AND. Remember that any choices he makes are his own. Don't ever let him get away with anything like "Well, if you won't do that I will just go do it..." That is terribly important. I spent time on suicide watch for a couple of my friends. Talked one off a bridge and down from a tree at one stage!

You need to stay away from this person and you must not feel guilty for doing so. Next time he calls you and asks you to come over, you must not go and I think that you are clever enough to realise why without me telling you - but just in case: You cannot help him. He has to help himself - nobody saves anybody, people save themselves, which incidently, is what I suggest you do before this drags you down. Feel no guilt because you have tried up to the point that your emotional wellbeing is as risk of being severely impacted. If there is ever a choice between you or them, then you must choose you. Your brain should be telling you that further interaction is pointless (he would be the same in 2 years, still alive, still inflicting his misery on a so-called friend) and detrimental to your wellbeing. That's it as far as what to do - the main issue here is how to go about it. I have a plan..........first off, depressed or not, you do not treat a friend in this manner - he knows you are ot feeling as bright and bubbly as you were, but then that is is point. He's miserable and he's going to makes others suffer (you) for one reason only - if you start to feel miserable then it will make him feel better about his woes. Next time he calls remember this and as it is unlikely for you to come out and say it to him, you make it easier on yourself and just make up an excuse - anything at all but whatever it is, it will take all day and all evening. Apologise and leave it at that. Do not answer any more calls that day because he may ring to tell you he is really going to do away with himself today. He won't, trust me. Then, you do whatever you need to do, for however long it takes to do it, to make yourself feel as you should. You see, right now, you don't have time to worry about anybody else because you need to spend some time on yourself. Make an excuse each time he calls. Yes, it may seem morally wrong but it's not even though it is a lie every time. If it means that you get back to normal more quickly then that is what you do. When the dust has settled and you are feeling a bit tougher and more resilliant, he will still be around and by this time, will more than likely be in the throws of a major sulk. If he does call, then you tell him quietly and kindly that you cannot come over anymore until he is over this because it was making you feel depressed as well. Tell him that the very fact that it made you start feeling the same way as he did, is proof that your frequent t visits were doing the trick. The aim was for him to feelng better and happy like you did, not the other way around. Repeat as often as necessary - tell him to call you when he feels better. If he says 'what am I going to do" you say "I am sorry, I can't worry about that right now, I only have time to worry about me - if I do not get myself back on track, then nobody else will do it for me - sorry". Then, when all is said and done, you put it all to the back of your mind and go have some fun with other friends or whatever. We all need the days when all we do is laugh about something stupid and have real good fun - it's time you did. He is not, nor has ever been your responsibility. Afterall, if you wanted a child to look after, then you would have had a baby by now.

Get him professional help. If it goes to far just stay away. Its like the piece of fuck that rolled down the hill. The fuck contaminates you. Wait... the piece of shit. Well anyways if all fails STAY AWAY FROM THE FUCK/SHIT PIECE