To despair is human; to know when wounded retreat is necessary is wisdom in motion.    The column ironically mentions both John Wayne and then quotes Dorothy Day in a very John Waynesque attitude towards mental health:  "No one has a right to sit down and feel hopeless."        For those of us who love our constitutional republic, we look out and see an existential threat to that which we love.    A whole slew of human emotion is perfectly natural, and a big one of those is GRIEF, and all its five stages including depression.   So wherever people are at, that's where you should be.   But TALK about it.   Get out of the house and OWN it.   Move through it, rather than pretend it doesn't exist.   That's how you keep marching long after others have burnt out.