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Each person creates their own hell.  Each of us are flawed and struggle with different things.  Telling yourself your situation is not as bad as someones else does not help.

It is too easy for you to point out others’ flaws.  Usually you are blind to your own.  Each person has their own reality.  And your struggles are unique.

Somehow you have to look at yourself from the outside as if you were stranger to see how you truly are.  This is very difficult to do.  Friends’ (and enemies’) feedback can help.

Their feedback can possibly suggest better, more productive ways of dealing with your problems.  Most of the time you are your own worst enemy.  You create your own hell.

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The isolation that follows depression is the worst thing about it.  It is self perpetuating:  you feel all alone and then depressed.  You are depressed, thus you feel alone.  It is a vicious cycle.

Somehow you need to break it.  In the beginning it is very difficult.  I was there.  I started to think of everything I should be grateful for.

Some things were material like the fence we made taller this year so all our dogs could be contained in our yard.  One dog could jump the fence and we wanted him to run wild again.

Four dogs who love me all in their own way was a thing to be thankful for.  I had a special relationship with one–“Tilla.”  That was no small thing.

I had to look for a crack in my depression.  At first it would be small but if I continued it would get bigger and bigger.  Finding things to be grateful for was a start.

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