Breaking    Out

I hear different sentences for it all the time: “It’s all falling apart” or “It’s crumbling.”

It’s depression.

My friend visited that place the other day. “It’s been two days” she said to be exact. “Actually three” she admitted afterwards.

No one could say or do anything to get her out of there. Almost no one.

“Depression is not a crime.” — she read me a quote from Tzvi Freeman’s A Daily Dose of Wisdom from the Lubavitcher Rebbe this one on self-destruction — “But it pushes a person into an abyss deeper than any crime could reach. Depression is a ploy instigated by the self-destructive elements within all of us. Once depressed a person could do anything. Fight depression as a blood-sworn enemy. Run from it as you would run from death itself.”

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