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 9.  Pick a verse of the day, (you do not have to worry about memorizing it) write it on a 3 x 5 card and tape it where you are the most, above the kitchen sink,   beside the living room chair, on the bathroom mirror. I had a little nephew who wanted to know why Aunt Denise always had weird stuff on her walls. I told him it was keeping me sane. I wonder if he remembers that........he is 17 now, I'll have to ask.

10.  PLAN AN ESCAPE..........If I have a suicidal thought, at the FIRST hint of it, plan to say,  "I will_____________"and fill in the blank. I use this all the time with what I will do when my someone gets ugly, "I will___________walk out of the room, read a book, go to the garden, do the dishes, scrub a floor, bake a cake", I think you get my point.  But you must PRE-PLAN what to do when the evil begins.....you MUST replace evil with good.........good can be anything that is not evil........jogging, baking, reading.  YOU MUST HAVE A PRE-arranged method of reaction. If you don’t you will only React to everything that happens in your life, instead of ACT. 

Most of all, QUIT TRYING SO HARD.  YOU can't do it anyway, God has to and the more you push with trying to make him your everything, etc, etc., the more impossible it will become.  You just need to stay busy with real simple things in life and just do the next thing.  Quit waiting for something to happen. It's almost  like you're holding your breath.......BREATHE........and then do the next thing.

How about a way to do things to keep your mind occupied??  Do you do any crafts???? Scrapbooking, stamps, painting, cross-stitch?  If not, go out and buy a beginner kit and learn to do something NEW.   It takes allot of brain power to learn something new, even if it is simple, and before you know it, you will have a new skill.  You could even teach others......learn to quilt......start making your own soap, write a children’s story......learn origami.......what have you always admired in someone else's ability??? Try to do it yourself.....so you mess up, try again......or try something different.

And if you end up with WAY too many projects sitting around the house, just think of the ways you can bless people with something unexpected that YOU have made.  Give them away to Sunday School classes at your church, bus routes, visit a children’s hospital and give something to the children there AND their parents.   It will brighten THEIR day AND yours.   It is ministering to others, reaching out and it will bless your soul like nothing you’ve ever done before.  NOW......if you really REALLY want to be accountable to someone, discuss with a close friend or church member your plans.  I accomplished this without a person like this in my life, but I know many who do this.  Have them make an agreement with you for when your "accountability session" will be.  It does not need to be a face to face session.  Just a line in a computer email, or a few minutes of the phone.  MANY do it weekly, however, some who are in the beginning stages of this healing process need it more often than that.  You do NOT want to make yourself a burden on this person, so  I would like to suggest two things.  One, that you keep it on a computer, if you have one, or just write things down in a spiral book, for that person to go over when convenient for them.  Two, ONLY PUT THE POSITIVE THINGS YOU HAVE ACCOMPLISHED IN THIS BOOK, NOT YOUR FAILURES.  If you were to write all your failures or black thoughts, you would be defeating the purpose of doing positive things.  Record just your accomplishments, not your doubts and fears.  It will keep you honest with yourself if you have to write it down AND if you know someone else is looking at it.

I pray something in here has been helpful to the MANY out there that suffer from either the occasional bout with depression, or to those who are severely depressed and on multiple medication.  Always remember it is Satan’s plan to keep us from looking UP.  When I was depressed, UP was not a direction I even knew existed, but with God’s word, the prayers of the faithful, and the plan described above, I believe depression CAN be made to disappear.

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