Telling the Truth

If you feel lonely, so do many others. Screens of all sorts are not a substitute for real, genuine human connection. If you spend much of your free time alone and struggle with depression Sally Erickson speaks about how the seemingly simple act of telling the truth about oneself is one key to healing from depression and lack of close friends and family. Perhaps in much "depression," what is being depressed is one's true self. This arises from from hopelessness and lack of skills to create genuinely close, loving relationships. People ache for more real connection and contact.

Time spent with friends and family has dramatically fallen. Between 2010 and 2013 the time spent with friends for the average American was stable, at 6½ hours per week. By 2019, the average American spent only four hours per week with friends. The 2020 enforced social isolation made it worse. Now it has improved somewhat but is not back to the 2019 levels.(https://www.joannejacobs.com/post/home-alone).

Sally and her husband Tim Bennett can be contacted at http://rightrelationships.us/contact/