The most disgusting, it not that you have a bad mood, and that at your friend it fell below a plinth, and you at the same time do not know how to help it to get out of the abyss of depressive thoughts. If it is really important to you to understand how to lighten the mood to the friend, follow our advice and include imagination, it is useful to you.
Uninvited guests
You just spoke with the friend by phone and understood that it gathers the whole day, and maybe not one to stay in loneliness among heavy oppressive and, the main thing, incorrect and subjective, conclusions. In its state it is impossible to let matters drift, and time you look for a way as it is possible to lighten the mood to the friend, you already on the right track.
We take veselitelny drinks (everything depends on preferences of the friend), snack (depending on a type of drinks) and previously we try to discover in TV program any football match or that sports event to which viewing your friend inclines more often.
You rush to it home, you say that you had no other exit, a match for which you waited, did not wait, you cannot see the house for a number of reasons. Besides, the company of the friend always brings good luck to favorite team, and further when you are let in immediately, to chatter the faithful companion and to force to forget about the grief, you will manage. Here and so it is imperceptible you and you will cope with how to improve mood to the friend.
Look for the hero
Sometimes for a mood raising to the friend happens to load it with the problems enough. Help the person to feel the extreme indispensability. Beg him to help to make shift of the house, to help to screw up a case / to repair the fridge / to recolour walls / to wash the car. And, the main thing, it is necessary to make all this exactly today because if you do not make it (you can think up the Last Judgement to yourself) … The friend will grumble a little and will be forced to agree, and work as hands will help to disconnect a brain and to get off a mind.
Informal conversation
Of course, the classical way to support the friend in a trouble is to allow the person to be uttered. But before lightening the mood to the friend words to you it is necessary to get home to it or to bring to a neutral zone, for this purpose you can use the above methods. Besides, your friend can be the introvert, the unsociable person therefore you should wait without inquiries until he tells everything. But when he will begin to speak, do not interrupt and just nod and in every possible way express consent and understanding.