My very dear Janet,
Thank you very much for your kind letter. I'm sorry for the long delay in replying.

Please read and study well the various advice that I have given for depression, especially the advice I gave to a student who had very bad depression. The thing that she found helped the most was doing tonglen practice, bodhicitta practice—this means the path to enlightenment, and the wish to liberate suffering beings and to enlighten all suffering beings. That is the greatest achievement in life, making the happiest life.

With much love and prayers...