A question of tomorrows

You may be sitting reading this now in the place I’ve been many times. You’re simultaneously assuring yourself that tomorrow your mind will be better while planning how and what you’ll do if it is not. This may be day 1 of that cycle, this may be day 100 of that cycle – but regardless…

18 things I learned about depression in 2018 (good and bad)

For better or for worse, depression and I seem destined to be together for a while longer if not forever. It is a miraculous teacher of life lessons, especially when you find yourself in the midst of a major depressive episode that spans many months that folds into dysthymia (or persistent depressive disorder if you…

The lies we tell to make it through.

Sometimes, I just get tired. Not physically tired or even mentally tired, those are nothing new to me but just tired of not being able to say ‘I’m okay’ and actually meaning it. Tired of not knowing  how depression will affect my future, how many days/months/weeks/years I have ahead of me where I just have…