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Mental Health Support

CaliforniaPeggy

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2. Good for you, my dear mopinko!

Reply to mopinko (Original post)

Sun Jun 18, 2017, 08:49 PM

Jun 2017

Isn't it funny? You go out to help others, and of course you do..........but who you really help is YOU.

I have always found that helping someone else feel better also really helps me feel better too. It is for me the surest way to get out of my funk.

Sometimes I help folks here on DU, or on Facebook. And I do it by offering some empathy, or a few well-chosen words of gentle advice, or whatever I can.

We do what we can, with what we have, where we are.

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service. [View all] mopinko Jun 2017 OP

I gotta tell Ya.. maybe WE haven't interacted.. furtheradu Jun 2017 #1

d'awww mopinko Jun 2017 #3

Good for you, my dear mopinko! CaliforniaPeggy Jun 2017 #2

yes, this is another place where it is my privilege mopinko Jun 2017 #4

... CaliforniaPeggy Jun 2017 #5

Excellent. Tobin S. Jun 2017 #6

thanks honey. mopinko Jun 2017 #9

All my adult life Mr.Bill Jun 2017 #7

yeah, 5:30 aint gonna happen. mopinko Jun 2017 #8

My Dad used to say luvtheGWN Jun 2017 #10

a hundredfold sounds about right. mopinko Jun 2017 #11

There is joy in giving BarbD Jun 2017 #12

yes, the ones who are alone. mopinko Jun 2017 #13

I think I was super lazy the day you posted this.... steve2470 Oct 2017 #14

thanks steve. mopinko Oct 2017 #15