However it is not required by law that we don’t talk about your suicidal thoughts. If someone has a suicidal part, it wants to protect the person from unbearable suffering and overwhelm. Just because it [the suicidal part] has good intentions, doesn’t mean the method is very effective. But not talking about the feelings might not help either.

The safest way to change is to do it with as little effort as possible. If you set a goal of completely cleaning your entire house in one weekend, when you haven’t been doing that on the regular, perhaps set a goal of doing slightly more this week than you did last week.

Buy some of those valentine’s cards that children get for their class mates and mail them to your friends. Make valentine’s hearts and give them to your neighbors or a lonesome person in a retirement home.

If you suffer with depression, you might wonder how it is possible that other people don’t experience the same misery. Everyone has some kind of challenge in their life. Yours is to dance with depression. It is not always easy being a human. So, what are you going to do about it?

Here’s how you can recognize the cycle of depression and try a few strategies to help break it.