Once you're in the maw of the beast, very little will work except to just grab on with all four sets of nails and your teeth and ride the bastard out.

How do you combat depression?  It's the little things that count first.  I know, everyone wants the big stuff, the whole enchilada, let's save the universe, etc.

That always reminds me of the Chinese prayer I have been mindful of all these years: "Lord, please reform the world, starting with me."  Depression starts in small ways - you just don't notice it until it looms up and smacks you in the head.

"I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer.  Fear is the little death that brings total obliteration.  I will face my fear.  I will permit it to pass over me and through me.  And when it is gone past, I will turn the inner eye to see its path.  Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. 

Only I will remain." 

--Frank Herbert, Dune

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