depression lies

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 Matt Haig: Yes, depression lies. And it's very hard to not believe it when it's there, because it's very much in the foreground and it totally convinces you. And it's not always that it necessarily lies, but it gives you the very, very worst interpretation of your reality. Yes, so I think time proves that life doesn't always get worse.

from "Depression and #ReasonsToStayAlive",  Lynne Malcolm and Matt Haig, All In The Mind, ABC Radio National, 31 May 2015
http://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/allinthemind/depression-and-reasons-to-stay-alive/6494972

Matt Haig, 2015, Reasons to Stay Alive
http://www.matthaig.com/reasons-to-stay-alive/

The next time you see someone

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poetry by Tao Lin

Inangahua Junction bridge after the 1968 earthquake, photo by Phillip Capper, Flickr creative commons

are you okay?

i don't think telling someone 'don't feel sad' will console them

you need to do whatever you can to make them feel better

whenever your actions make them feel sad

and not stop until they feel better

...

poetry by Tao Lin, 2008
Cognitive-Behavioural Therapy 
Melville House Publishing, New York