The Atheist Blogger

Jackie from Candy Coloured Frown has an interesting couple of posts on how atheism helped her recover from depression:

We always hear uplifting stories from theists about how they were in the worst possible situation and somehow it was God that saved them. It was God that helped them through their hardship. (I’m sure most of us have heard of the Footprints Poem.) How horrible it must be to be an atheist and not believe you have someone always cheering for you? But wait, I do have someone cheering for me… I have lots of people cheering for me! I call them my friends and family. Despite the hardships of my parents and my sister, I never doubted for a moment that they loved me. Furthermore, I had developed some really awesome friends that I was able to lean on and talk to for support.

The full story can be found here and is continued here. I suspect there are many people like her, who had the realisation that there was no supernatural help coming along, that they had to make it either on their own or with the help of people they knew.