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Most people have experienced some grief and loss, either from the death of a loved one, the loss of a job, or a break up. They are familiar with that emotional pain, so I compare my depressions with those events. I stress that it lasts a long time and I cannot always identify the cause and that it is not exactly the same. I stress that social support helps, but doesn’t make it disappear.
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It is said an Eastern monarch once charged his wise men to invent him a sentence, to be ever in view, and which should be true and appropriate in all times and situations. They presented him the words: "And this, too, shall pass away." How much it expresses! How chastening in the hour of pride! How consoling in the depths of affliction!
---"Address before the Wisconsin State Agricultural Society". Abraham Lincoln Online. Milwaukee, Wisconsin. September 30, 1859.
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