Suggestion about suicide prevention

[abaris]

Those are some good thoughts.  Learning to accept and appreciate who you are can be extremely valuable when fighting depression.  It creates a sort of internal foundation that will allow you to cope with all of the external conflict.

Only one question: Did you personally suffer from a clinical depression? And by that I don't mean feeling down, but a real one with all the symptoms associated with it.

The advice of just learning to appreciate yourself is exactly the New Age nonsense that's more likely to worsen the situation. Sometimes well meant, sometimes ignorant of what you're dealing with and - in extreme circumstances - used to make a dime. Depression is an illness needing a combined therapy of medication and professional analysis.