What would mean stopping and seeing someone

These are here in lesson one rather than at the end, because a person in a bad enough state may never reach lesson six.

Two weeks or more of most days low, or of nothing giving you anything back. You cannot do things you were doing three months ago. Work, study, cooking, showering, replying to people. Sleep or appetite has changed noticeably in either direction, and weight is moving without you trying. You have stopped praying entirely, not from a decision but because you cannot make yourself. You are using alcohol or something else, or taking more medication than you were given, to get through. Someone close to you has said something.

And one that has no waiting period at all. If you are having thoughts about being dead, about not waking up, or about harming yourself, at any frequency and any intensity, that is now rather than later. The note at the top of this course tells you what to do today.