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I have been depressed very lately. I felt it would be better if I share my thoughts with my friends as I'm not able to handle things on my own. But I have a feeling that telling my vulnerabilities makes me even more weak in the future.
Talking can make you feel better in the moment and worse in the long run. We are all fluid and what we feel or believe one minute may change the next, but when we share intimate feelings with people they tend to look at them as static. At least until they learn otherwise. You have to weight if sharing is worth the short term gain.
It's a good thing to share, it's weak to his and.act like nothing is wrong. Sometimes talking makes it better. Good luck!
It's normal to want to share about your struggles with friends and family, but please choose carefully those with whom you will to share.
I'd make sure that you both set boundaries initially. I deal with mania etc. and I have had to let go of mentally ill friends who were manipulative and callous (usually they threatened suicide over and over again), so I have an understanding of the other end too.
By being open, you're hopefully in that majority who is actively in treatment and responsible because you are doing the right thing by that. The people who cannot be helped because of a cluster B personality disorder or lack of insight, refusing medication etc. on the other hand get my compassion. From a distance.
We need people who will be by our side and support us being as well as possible. When resentment results from "good intentions" getting nowhere over and over again, it turns into the "elephant in the room". We need to always remember that they are all people with feelings too.
Its normal especially if their the type of friends that will bring encouragement to you in those dark time's. This won't make you weak it will build a strength for you that will help you when you come out of this depression...it will help you when you look back into the past the people who truly had you back...:) feel better