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Link – Uplifting letters from those who have battled depression to fellow sufferers tell them ‘that it can and does get better’

This is a pretty cool idea, because as I’ve said many times, someone with depression needs to know that they are not the only one who has ever been in this struggle, and that there is hope.

“Their letters and the others in the book, are so powerful because they’re all from people who have been in the same hideous pain, the same heavy blanket on top of them, the same certainty that things wouldn’t improve and they tell you that it can and does get better.”

http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/real-life-stories/uplifting-letters-those-who-battled-10887987

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