What I feel right now is ineffable. All I know is that I am suddenly more aware of the hollowness inside me. Depression and…
View More When the Fog Takes Over…Category: Depression
The Meaning of Suffering
To live is to suffer, to survive is to find some meaning in the suffering – Friedrich Nietzsche My own life has been riddled with…
View More The Meaning of SufferingDreaded Holiday Depression
I write this with a heavy heart. It’s a difficult time of year for me. But I know I’m not alone. Every year many people…
View More Dreaded Holiday DepressionGoogle this and that…
If at any time I was at risk of screaming publicly it was last week. I am not going crazy. Yet. But I have a…
View More Google this and that…The Dark Side
‘Welcome to the dark side’ is what my friend at work (right behind me) says to me when I pop around her ‘side’ of the…
View More The Dark SideBang, bang…Fibromyalgia Kills
Doctors had always said that fibromyalgia isn’t going to kill us. They mean it’s not a terminal illness. Our muscles won’t degenerate, and we won’t…
View More Bang, bang…Fibromyalgia KillsSaving theWorld…& Ourselves
…the irony is stigma leads us to suffer in silence while we are judged by people who will also have a mother, father, sister, cousin, aunt, co worker… suffering as well.
View More Saving theWorld…& OurselvesA Helping Hand
Support and love at home, work and in the community is very important too, but oftentimes getting people to understand depression can be tricky and complicated, sometimes reinforcing the depth of isolation one feels.
View More A Helping HandThe Real Me
…the true test that never fails, inarguably, is looking at how people make us feel. When you’re around someone who makes you feel like cow manure then stay away
View More The Real MeEnding the Stigma behind Depression
If depression is like being trapped in a dark, empty room all alone, then stigma is what keeps the sufferer locked in, just a doorknob away from the sunshine and from help and happiness.
View More Ending the Stigma behind Depression