I have mentioned before on this site that I
suffer from and medicate depression. I may not have described it, but I call it
The Nothing. It envelopes me, blocks out everything. I feel I've fallen into a
deep well. The medication I take helps immensely and most of my depression
symptoms rarely come around anymore, but I thought this article was well worth
sharing for others who suffer from the same Nothing.
Chris
Rose is a columnist for the Times-Picayune out of New Orleans. He wrote an
article recently about his discovery that, in the aftermath of Katrina he was
suffering from a disease that he didn't really believe
existed.
"As time wore on, the toll at home worsened. I declined all dinner invitations that my wife wanted desperately to accept, something to get me out of the house, get my feet moving. I let the lawn and weeds overgrow and didn't pick up my dog's waste. I rarely shaved or even bathed. I stayed in bed as long as I could, as often as I could. What a charmer I had become.
"But I was disappearing fast, slogging through winter and spring and grinding to a halt by summer. I was a dead man walking.
"I had never been so scared in my life."
To Hell and Back
A great article. He puts a bit of a light on the Nothing.
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