It's so easy to get dragged down.

When I see happy people, it makes me feel even happier. I admit I have difficulty being around chronically depressed people. I was even that way with my own dear mother, when she went through periods of depression. It would literally exhaust me to be with her for a weekend. I needed a day or two to recover. Because it started to make me sad. As we left mother to return home, Jeanne and I would take a deep sigh as we drove away and waved goodby to mom. It was sort of a relief. And that's not a nice thing to say. But it's so easy to get dragged down when one is trying to lift up a depressed person. --Jim Broede