During this crisis, stay actively engaged in directing your daily life in a healthy manner. It will help you feel less helpless.

One of the sneakiest, most pernicious forms of self-deprivation involves timing. You don’t outright deny yourself the idea of self-loving action, but you put it off for later.

If you don’t value yourself, you are vulnerable to staying too long in a bad situation.

Although I am essentially an extrovert, I am not entirely crazy about parties. My understanding of parties changed in 1979 when I did a yearlong internship at a state mental hospital in the South Bronx.