Sometimes, when friends are struggling, they *can't* ask for help.

Sometimes active engagement is the right thing to do. We need to lift each other up, and to stop letting our culture dissuade us from doing so.

I can't even count how many times in my messed up life when something like this could have had a huge impact. (Right now is one of those times.)

#mentalhealth #mentalillness #mentalwellness #isolation #community #supportsystem #loveeachother

@shmibs Yeah, I don't have many local ones and most of my online ones are busy or having troubles of their own lately.

I guess I would hope that if we as a society started being more proactive in this way, we'd also be more open with neighbors or strangers, at least enough to get to know they're struggling, and offer a hand. And they would feel more able to accept.

Right now the suffering of people who have no one is mostly invisible.