Loved ones with Depression

It is widely reported that mental illness may strike one in four individuals. However, the reality is that it affects us all! We all have contact with individuals who struggle with mental health challenges.
How can you help a loved one who may suffer from depression? Empathy, love, support--even humor.
I will share a link here with some food for thought on this important topic.

“Mental health problems do not affect three or four out of every five persons but one out of one.”
(Dr. William Menninger)

  mental health

Alumni page on Facebook for LaSalle University in Mandeville, LA.

Song of the Week:

"Better Than Drugs", by Skillet, www.myspace.com/skilletmusic

"Feel your every heartbeat
Feel you on these empty nights
Calm the ache, stop the shakes

You clear my mind
You're my escape
From this messed up place
'Cause you let me forget
You numb my pain

How can I tell you just all that you are
What you do to me.

You're better than drugs
your love is like wine
Feel you comin' on so fast
Feel you comin' to get me high
You're better than drugs
Addicted for life
Feel you comin' on so fast
Feel you comin' on to get me high.

Feel you when I'm restless
Feel you when I cannot cope
You're my addiction, my prescription, my antidote
You kill the poison
Ease the suffering
Calm the rage when I'm afraid to feel again.

How can I tell you just all that you are
What you do to me...

Feel your every heartbeat
Feel you on these empty nights
You're the strength of my life."

(lyrics © by the artist & used for educational purposes only)

selah