I know it has been a while since my last post but this topic goes a long way is maybe describing why. I have lived with Depression, through ups and downs, for over 40 years. It is a topic that is very hard to explain, much like Love. Unless you experience it you cannot really describe it very effectively.
To be depressed is to live in a world where you cannot trust your own feelings. Like alcholism being able to identify that you are depressed is most of the battle. However, that battle is not an easy one. I have failed in so many relationships and to be honest to this day I am still unsure if it was me or them.
There are those who make depression their identity, as in they will describe thier condition and even write about it like that is who they are. Then there are those like me who try to maintain a daily routine (sometimes even concealing their condition). Believe it or not we live among you and our condition can be very mild to the clinically extreme.
I write to you now as a man who has had to rebuild his life several times. I keep my like in balance with social interations but even that can be fleeting. I see many organizations today trying to help depression with call centers and talk stations but talk is fleeting. Understand that we (The Depressed) live in a different world outside of yours and that which you take for granted is not as easy for us.
