If you found yourself answering "yes" to the questions on the Depression Self-Test page, you could begin to get relief today.  In fact there are dozens of ways to feel less depressed, but I want to share a few with you that you may never have heard of before.  These are tricks to more well-being that many depressed people I've worked with have used to get at least some of the relief they seek immediately.

These tools are in no way meant to replace therapy, but they can provide relief while you're:

• Waiting to get to therapy,
• Waiting for therapy to work,
• Learning to manage a depression that requires more than therapy,
• Waiting for medication to work, or
• Waiting to find out if you really need therapy, which you may not if this is a brief, isolated incident.

I would put the tools on this page, but I want to develop a list of people who may want more information from me, particularly about depression.  I have for ten years now answered everyone individually when they've written me.  I will continue to do that, but I also want to be able to send out information to many people at once, when I think it might be useful to you.

So I am asking for your e-mail address, and you will access these six tools to use immediately.  I will not share your information; I will only use it myself to send you relevant information, articles, tips, announcements about changes on the site, or newsletters from me.  Believe me, I don't have time to swamp your inbox, but when I really have something to say, I'd like to help as many people who are interested as possible with it.  You can, of course, take yourself off the list at any time.

Don't Suffer Anymore; Get Relief Now!

If you are seriously considering killing yourself, or letting yourself be killed, please either:

call 911 or

go to an emergency room or

call a suicide hotline: 1-800-273-TALK (8255), or

go to suicidepreventionlifeline.org, or http://www.suicide.org/suicide-hotlines.html,com

IMMEDIATELY!