River: Anti-suicide pact
Before you get all worried, no, I am not contemplating suicide these days. I don't need this right now, though there have been times in my life when it might have helped a little, and there may be times ahead when I will need it. But I know that depression is pretty common among my readers, and this might help someone out there. So, from this post by theferrett,
The impetus came on Saturday, when I was talking to a friend and he told me what happened to Marine applicants who didn't make it through boot camp. "You have to sign an agreement saying you won't kill yourself," he explained. "Guys like that, they have a certain definition of honor, and it keeps a lot of people going." Someone else chimed in, "Actually, that's a reasonably common practice in therapy. It works." And I realized, to my dawning horror, that I actually not only could use a contract like that, but actively needed one.
I am also not in therapy, and in fact never have been. Unless you count the River, which is occasionally thereputic writing. theferrett is an odd one: mostly irrelevant, sometimes annoying, and sometimes profound. I keep him on my friends list for the profound ones. Not really a bad role model when you come down to it.