This week's episode will be an unusually personal one for me, on a topic that has been centralto my life and the lives of so many other young people.I'll be constructing an imagined library for someone suffering from depression.I recently came through one of my worst ever bouts - that took me off work for months and in the end completely changed my life. It was at times crippling, desperatley terrifying and all-consuming.Creating and imagining a private safe space filled with everything you need to pull you out of your current situation can be such a great mental tool. It was one of the things that in a small way helped me to claw my way out.I've decided to reconstruct my personal imagined space, and hopefully will demonstrate the tools you can use to create your own.I also share some of what I think is some of the best writing to approach the subject - some of it to inform, and some others that do a great job of articulating what it really feels like, so that you might be able to relate to bits and pieces and feel understood.I hope this could be useful for anyone suffering froma period of depression, or anyone that is worried about a friend or a family member.

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