One of the best strategies for people suffering depression is to get them to help someone else, who is worse off. That takes the focus off the depressed person, and puts their focus on something positive. You might try visiting a nursing home where some little old lady sits alone in her room all day, just waiting on the box. What a miserable existence, to live only to die.
John Harvey
Shelbynet.com
"I'm addicted to placebos. I could quit, but it wouldn't matter." Stephen Wright