It's a great topic tho, and the best place I think I can make an observation or two.

First, neither depression nor anxiety need be looked at merely from within the medical model, and no I am not about to recommend the Christian angle but a quite-secular one despite the initials in their URL: www.rc.org. In this model, time and listening attention are exchanged between people who come to know and trust one another well; it has clear guidelines; the person in the client role is always in charge of what is worked upon. It is basically the application of the natural process you can see any young person engage in-- when well-meaning adults do not try to stop them from using it.

Second, I have been really concerned to see the encouragement, here, of way-too-busy activity when it is likely that either anxiety or mania or hyperactivity are actually at work.

Third, a strong value at Mudcat always has been on taking the best and leaving the rest. It would be great to see THAT applied more often! :~)

~Susan