(there was some trouble with numbering and spacing in yesterday's entry, so I'ma try bullet points instead)
OK, you've established that you think a friend of yours is having problems with depression. You love your friend and you want to help, but you feel hamstrung. What if you say the wrong thing? What if your friend doesn't want help? What if ( Read more... )

I start this with the warning, that I am not a therapist, not a psychiatrist or counselor or psychologist. I have no more rigorous formal education in the human mind than ten or twelve hours of college psych could give me, and for the rest I speak from personal observation and experience, which are by no means comprehensive.

Depression's just ( Read more... )