I really like a couple lines from Alanis Morissette's song "Joining You." In it she lists all sort of things that if they were the reason for living she'd join the suicidal character she's writing to. She sings:

"If we were our culture /
If we were our leaders /
I'd be joining you"

That really helped me at the time because i was doing political activism (this was twenty-five years ago) and getting more and more depressed. I heard these lines and thought: yeah, i'm not suicidal because of the NATO war in the Balkans. I'm suicidal because of my own problems. I don't need to go borrowing trouble.

So for that and other reasons i abandoned political activism and never looked back. I'll always be grateful to Alanis and that song.