The guy goes in to see a doctor says there's something wrong with me I got.

I said this I can't shake now.

Is there something I can't take now.

Is the hilarious world of depression, placebo addition, mantra placebo addition?

There are a few words you don't often hear together.

Well, depression takes people to some odd places.

And odd selections of words.

I'm John Moe and I recently asked listeners on Twitter what do they say to themselves

when clinical depression, our old pal, Clinidee starts to flare up.

A word, a phrase, a thought, something to bust in there, get things a little bit more

on track.

Here's what some of you had to say.

My name is Diane Lawless and I live in Austin, Texas and my mantra is it's only temporary.

It's not something I actively thought up to use as a mantra.

It just kind of came to me one day.

I had moved home to care for my father who was dying from ALS and as his condition progressed.

It became more of a struggle to manage my feelings and not given to the despair and sheer

exhaustion.

And after one particularly tough day, I was standing at the sink, doing the dishes and that

phrase just kind of popped into my head.

And I remember feeling this tremendous sense of relief, just knowing that it wasn't going

to last forever and things would get better.

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