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SEPTEMBER 10 REFLECTION FOR THE DAY "Loneliness is treatable"
Years ago, Dr. Alfred Adler prescribed this remedy for depression to a patient: "You can be healed if every day you begin the first thing in the morning to consider how you can bring a real joy to someone else. If you can stick to this for two weeks, you will no longer need therapy." Adler's "prescription," of course, is not much different from the suggestion that we work more intensively the Twelfth Step to rid ourselves of depression. When I am depressed, do I keep my feelings to myself? Or do I do what friends in Gamblers Anonymous have suggested I do? Today I Pray … May I turn myself…
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