A person with depression usually spends time good human beings.Self respect is a different thing.Being a good human being is different.Someone who makes friends with a person like Shukla cannot be a good person.Here Aarti has made Shuklaa her master.
I don't think Aarti is a good person that she is coming across as.The way she blamed Rashmi for some rumour abt her and Sid just to create a romantic angle with Shuklaa shows how she can be manipulative for the game.