Do's and Dont's

Do take time to listen
Do take the person by the hand and organise to get
     them competant professional help


Dont try to diagnose and treat depression yourself
      
If youve never experienced a severe, protracted depression before, dont presume you have the slightest idea of what the depressed person is experiencing.

Friends and family members are oftern frustrated by their inability to 'cure' the patients depression.
So they project the frustration on the miserable one.
They say "All you have to do is pull yourself together."
So the miserable one becomes more miserable.

Dont underestimate the dangerous of depression.
Dont ignore your depression because you believe it only happens to 'them' and not you.


Depression is such an ugly, brutal illness and none of us is immune. Depression is stifling, pervasive and crippling.
A desert without edges, an affliction of the soul.

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