Today, is the middle of National Mental Health Awareness week and I happen to have written a blog on depression and serotonin that will be published later this month at www.marilynfarms.com. Several hours later I turned on a music CD for my son to dance to and soon we were singing loudly and dancing to “The More We Get Together the Happier We’ll Be.” And in my head bells went off ringing at this simple truth. Don’t worry there are many nutritional things that can be done to improve biochemical happiness and I will talk about them on a different day.
Today it is important to remember we need people around us that are trustworthy, remind us how to laugh at the craziness of today, and help us to have hope for tomorrow. Enough with the sappiness and on to the song. I just know some of you have never heard it and those of you that have probably haven’t heard it in a while. And so especially for you I picked a version with the words that change color with the song so you to can sing loudly and dance (or pretend you did for my sake).
In case you needed something substantial for this blog: Each county around the U.S. has free, anonymous depression screenings available through Oct 8th this year. Just google: ”your county” depression screening 2011.