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Tue 07 Jul 2007Back from the edgeMind Moves:Over the past few weeks I have been with friends and loved ones who have confided in me that they were feeling very depressed.Easy to say it was perhaps the company they were in (and there were indeed moments when I considered this). But, in fact, their state of mind reflected different stresses in each of their lives, which had been bearing down on them for some time and which were now pushing them into a lonely despair.