In this week’s installment from Off the Record with Martin Luther, Luther warns us about the danger of isolating ourselves when feeling melancholy:

122. People, who are troubled through a spirit of melancholy, must, above all, take precautions so that they are not alone. For God created the community of the Church and brotherhood commanded, as Scripture tells us: “Watch out for him who is left alone! If he stumbles, there is no one there to help him up [Ecclesiastes 4:10].”  (p. 310)