Depression kills
Phillip Seymour Hoffman, Robin Williams -- how many more talented, sensitive, articulate, brilliant people must we lose to the isolation of pain, depression and addiction? It's all because the pain became too hard to cope with. It's all about getting rid of the unbearable pain of despair. And we lose all humanity if we presume to judge this condition. Pain steals all judgement, logic, strength and contorts them all into something small, slippery, and utterly impossible to manage on our own after a certain point. And often, it's our most sensitive people who dare walk out to the edge of these places. We need to call them back to us when they do. It takes a village to save our friends from this place. It only takes one moment to turn someone around, at least for that day. They may continue to need turning around, but every day is a gift and worth fighting for. Clarity lies in knowing when a tolerable pain, which life is naturally filled with as the inevitable byp