The Depression Files

Along with healing myself, my writing also serves to create bridges to other people.  Words are so very powerful.  We use them for all sorts of reasons, some good and some bad.  Words have the power to maim and to hurt but also to heal and to deliver hope.  After 43 years now of having to contend with my depression, I find myself here, on this health site, writing about my experience. 

What do I have to offer you the reader?  Well, I will be quite frank with you.  Although my title says "Expert" there above my name, I want to say that I am not any sort of traditional expert.  I am not a doctor.  I am not a psychologist.  I am not a psychiatrist.  I cannot tell you about doses of medication or provide specific psychological or medical guidance.  What I do feel competent to bring to the table is the sharing of my own personal experiences with how to cope with depression.  My experience is not your experience.  I cannot truly walk in your shoes.  But I can walk right alongside you and share the journey. 

If there is one great message I hope to deliver here it is hope.  As clichéd as it sounds, there is always hope.  It is the one thing nobody can take away from you.  This is what keeps us going when we have sunk to the lowest lows.  I can honestly say I have been there, so I have first hand knowledge.  It is very possible to not only survive but even feel good again and find both peace and happiness. 

I will be writing here on Mondays and Wednesdays.  I do hope you will stay on for the journey.  I will be here!