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Long-term depression

Depression & Anxiety | Last Active: Aug 6 8:12am | Replies (335)

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@gingerw

@jimhd Thank you for making this comment. It certainly makes sense, believe it or not. I am very glad that you spoke up and said this. I will share with you that yesterday, as I was on a shuttle, all of the sudden as the last passenger to be delivered to location, the driver opened up to me and shared some very personal things,. Among those was the fact that he often considers suicide. By golly it was quite a revelation, very unexpected, and I had to put on my compassionate thinking cap real fast! This was at the end of an 18-hour day. We stood on the sidewalk and talked. I have no idea what I might have said, except that at the end he was glad that he had said something to me. I did urge him to think about all of the things he has to put in place if he was going to consider this, and he mentioned how it would hurt his son. I realized that was his Achilles heel and went in that direction. I hope to be able to reach out to him again.
Ginger

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@ginger, Volunteer Mentor, you and I both have written on our foreheads "Tell me all your troubles."

Thank God you are able to be in the right place at the right time.

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