August 9, 2021

CWD Daily

Tips for Coping with Depression


If you are in a suicide crisis, call the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline 
1-800-273-8255.

Tip of the Day

Get help.

The television show LOST had a metaphor for practically every human condition, including the need to get help. The characters in LOST pretty much deny their issues and insist they're just fine, no – better than fine, they are really doing well alone, thank you very much. But of course they are totally messed up, one and all.

And only by opening up and letting people in and letting people help them do they survive and ultimately thrive, in ways they never expected. (If by survive you mean mostly die, but that's another discussion about physical death vs. spiritual death and we're not going there.)

Not to beat a dead metaphor, but you don't have to go it alone. Get help when you need it. And when you're miserable a lot of the time you probably need it.




CWD Daily is written by Julie Aiken, a layperson whose only authority lies in 40 years of coping with depression. Nothing in the newsletter should be taken as medical advice. Please do no self-diagnose or self-prescribe. Above all, please get help if you need it. 

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