Where is my Listening Ear???

It seems that almost all of my friends are going through some really hard times. I have one friend in particular that is going through a pretty bad breakup with her husband of 17 years, not only is she having a tough time with that, she also has post traumatic stress syndrome from being horribly abused as a child. Sometimes I find myself being more of a therapist to her than a friend. She has a therapist that she sees 4 times a WEEK. whew. I was seeing a therapist about every 2 weeks and there were times I couldn't think of anything to talk about any more. I almost wanted to start making things up just to make things more interesting because I started to get bored. Anyway, where do I draw the line. There are times she calls me and she is a bit suicidal, I feel like I spend more time talking her down than anything else, but what should I do? I can't tell her to save this for her therapist when she is so distraught, but I also don't want her to be so dependent on me, she needs to be dependant on herself and no one else. She is making great progress by asking her skank of a husband to leave (which I thought would NEVER happen - I was so blown away), she got a new job (although I think that is a little overly stressful in itself) but she has really made great strides to standing on her own.

I am glad that I am there for people and I think I'm a great listener but where are the people that will listen to me once in a while? Now my friend does listen to me and she is a great friend when she isn't a little crazy, but it just seems that she has so many problems that it's making me more upset because I worry about her. Then Ty calls me and I found out he lost his job AGAIN, which I can't believe has happened. He said it is ANOTHER psycho boss, um, when just about every single boss you have ever had is psycho, wouldn't you start looking at yourself as being a problem? I don't know...then my other close friend is going through relationship problems with her man and suffering from depression, then my mom is having all of her health problems which is worrying me to death, then I have a friend at work that is constantly paranoid and thinking everyone is against her. Like I said, I don't mind giving advice or listening to people but it should go BOTH ways. I guess I do have a lot of problems but on the most part, I try to deal with them positively. My favorite saying is - It's 10% what happens to you in life and it's 90% how you react to it. I try to live that way so I guess I really don't have a lot to call someone up and cry on their shoulder. Although there are times I would really love to do that and when I try to find someone, they are either too busy or just want to talk about themselves again...sigh. Oh well, I know things will get better, they ALWAYS do, but it would be nice to have someone tell me that after listening to me...