Depression does not cause anyone to harm themselves or others. Depressed people cannot concentrate long enough to form those types of thoughts. But hopeless people can.
Hopeless people think and they think frequently. They think about whether they matter to others and whether the world would be better off without them. When hope is gone, one's ability to reason good answers to these types of questions leaves soon after.
President Obama speaks about hope but he and our depressed nation must take this idea one step further. False hope serves no purpose; we need to visualize the things in front of us that we look forward to.
We need to make the wheels of our nation's brains turn faster. We can do that by reminding ourselves that our nation has overcome bigger problems than the ones we face. Most of all, we need to regard our ability to see ourselves in a positive way as our right and the best path to all types of prosperity.
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