Keep Busy With New Goals

Learn a skill that requires daily practice and make the evening your time to learn and hone your new talent.

Write It Down

Writing about anger, sadness, and other painful emotions helps to release the intensity of those feelings. You will feel calmer and better able to stay in the present. Writing therapy allows you to track patterns, trends, improvements, and growth over time. You will be able to look back on previous dilemmas that you have since resolved and feel a sense of accomplishment.

Social Support

Seek social support. Spending time with family and friends is an important buffer against stress. It can be helpful to share your problems with people who care about you.

Letting Go

Everyone has experienced struggle, heartbreak, loneliness, failure and loss in their lives. We are all human. But some people are able to put those experiences behind them and move on with hope and optimism looking forward to a brighter future. Others can’t seem to let those difficult times go. The difference is that the people that can’t let them go keep replaying the bad times over and over in their minds. They go back and revisit the difficult days every day, in those quiet moments when they are alone and have time to think. They replay them over and over like a broken record. They feel the sadness and all the emotions that go with the difficult times over and over again throughout the days, weeks, months and years that follow, never allowing them to fade from their memories.

GHB

The research on GHB (gamma-Hydroxybutyric acid) is frightening. It is considered highly addictive.  The greatest immediate risk is death from overdose, but even regular low dose use has devastating side effects, including unrelenting anxiety, depression and insomnia.   

Suicide By Train

In Orange County, where nearly 68 miles of track snake through neighborhoods from San Clemente to Anaheim – and where 58 people killed themselves on train tracks from 2002 to 2012 – the rate of suicides by train is slightly higher.
And where the train runs from the San Diego County line to Dana Point, where there are few fences and many pedestrians, the deaths are clustered. Since 1986, at least 19 people – including Bill Brotherton Jr. – have died on that 6-mile stretch of track.

Talking About Depression

When your loved ones talk about depression, you should take them seriously. Depression is a disease, it's not something that just goes away on its own. It's not an easy road because of the stigma attached to mental illness, but encourage them to get help. People suffering from these diseases need help and the resources to get them there -- without feeling afraid. Just like you can walk into urgent care when you're sick, you should be able to walk into a health institution to get help. No one should be ashamed because it's not a choice -- just like cancer isn't a choice.