Living With Depression
I suffer from clinical chronic depression. I have lived with this condition for most of my life and this is the first time I have admitted it. You can find the symptom list from a simple web search, but it does not really describe what it is truly like to live with this condition. I intend to describe what it's really like in this post. Most people know what it's like to get depressed. You lose a loved one, go through a breakup, or something of similar magnitude. Most people will get mildly depressed while grieving this loss. Then after a while they find ways to be happy again. Ways to move on with their life. With the passage of time most depression passes and people move on. Not me, or anyone like me. I can't say for certain when my depression started. Maybe it was when I was a child and was uprooted from everything I knew to move across the country or a few years later having the same thing happen again. Maybe it was when I was a teenager and lost my best friend in a...