TWILIGHT HATERS discussion

So I want to discuss about Bella's "depression" in New Moon, does anyone find it exaggerated and too melodramatic? How do you find it? So after Edward left her, she feels extremely depressed and finds solace in Jacob, who turns out to be a supernatural being as well: a were-wolf. And not to mention, her grades are slipping because of this.

I am not sure that Bella's depression is exaggerated so much as it's just plan silly that she as a modern young woman feels that her life is over because a boy she liked is no longer interested in her.
I personally always thought that her over the top reaction had more to do with the fact that Edward was dazzling her, and had become rather like a drug. She was suffering from withdrawal and the drug was Edward. I think that literally she was suffering from a kind of withdrawal and most likely not just from being around Edward, but from all of the vampires.
Jacob isn't a werewolf. He's a shapeshifter and essentially normal before the vampires show up. Jacob helps her feel better before she ever learns he turns into a big wolf. So his being supernatural is kind of second to her connection to him.
I thought that someone should have held an intervention or something where she was concerned. Nothing about that girl says healthy.
Saille

Nothing about Bella's depression seemed over the top to me mainly because it was completely in line with her greatest character flaw: the inability to tell the difference between love and obsession. Due to her obsession with Edward (which she thought was love) she attached her entire life and future to this one person. When this person leaves (for what she thought would be forever), he takes her entire life and future along with it. She had no plans, thoughts or even identity outside of Edward, so her depression was to me an appropriate reaction because she basically lost herself. None of this is good obviously and had Edward stayed away she might have became a more likable character and a lot stronger because she would have been forced to find her own identity eventually and the reader would have gotten see actually grow and change.

As for Jacob, as stated before by Saille, she finds solace in him well before he becomes a supernatural creature, so I see little connection in that attachment. Though his supernaturalness does in a way force her to form a better attachment to him because unlike Edward, he can't be around 24/7 due to his responsibilities in the pack and need for sleep. I always felt her relationship with Jacob was a lot healthier but not the answer because she tried to cling to him like she did with Edward but couldn't. The series would have been better if Bella at some point had learned how to live life when it's not revolved around someone else in order for her to be happy.