How to be Helpful When Someone is Depressed

Lessons from the suicide hotline in doing no harm

Everything I believed about helping people was wrong. That’s what I realized after training to work on a suicide hotline.

It’s not easy to say the right thing to someone who is suffering emotionally. But with the devastation and isolation of the last couple of years, knowing what…

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