Living with Depression
This is something that that few people want to discuss or care to truly understand. More often than not people identify depression as a weakness, an inability to handle the day to day challenges that life throws at you. This as far from the truth as you could ever imagine. We all have down days, days when it feels like the universe is against us or where everything that could go wrong does and we feel like throwing in the towel. I know everyone has experienced this at some point in their life. It is not a nice place to be and often we will reassure ourselves with sayings like, ‘Every cloud has a silver lining;’ ‘It comes in threes’ or tomorrow will be a better day.’ And these sayings are all or mostly all true. I have often said that people who suffer from depression are some of the strongest and most resilient people you will ever meet. Mostly they are gentle people easily able to identify a darkness in others as they see through the facade that people portray. They are ab...