I recently found out that an acquaintance of mine is taking some time off to deal with depression (not a reader of this blog). I always feel at such a loss when this happens. Part of me wants to be like, "Hey, I'm completely insensitive and I want to talk to you about all the cool research on depression! Look at all these things you could try to cure your problem!" But I think the best thing I can do is not be nosy, not ask "HOW ARE YOU??", and just generally not be a nuisance (wow, new levels of redundancy!). Maybe I should look back to some board answers - "There is very good scientific evidence that doing fun stuff relieves depression — I am not making this up." bah ha ha... well, while I'd like to be friendly, I have a hard time seeing me being helpful... but perhaps there's something I can do.
2 comments:
lol, oh rach. you and academia... maybe you can ask "how are you?" and just talk to her/him. (but not in the crazy I'm-already-assuming-you're-still-suicidal way or I-expect-you-to-be-happy-after-this-conversation way or the I'm-talking-to-you-to-give-you-advice way) It sucks to be sad and left alone. Everything brightens when they know someone genuinely cares. :)
Just thinking about you.
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