This blog is for the sole purpose of documenting my journey through life while dealing with depression. I am hoping that this will help educate and inform those who have never experienced depression or who have been given misguided and stigmatized information about mental health and mental illnesses like depression. I will share my own personal stories as well as links to other articles regarding mental illness.
Depression can often feel like a lonely battle; you wake up every day and deal with the suicidal thoughts, the feelings of worthlessness and hopelessness, the isolation, the despair and self hatred, the numbness of not feeling anything, the lack of joy or happiness, and the overall sensation that your life is pointless. You fight this battle alone, for the most part. Sure, you have your family and friends, your psychiatrist and doctor, your therapist, but at the end of the day it's just you.
This blog is also for those out there who feel alone and like no one understands what you are going through. I do understand. You are not alone. We fight our own battles on our own time, but we are all living in the same hell, just dealing with different devils. I am hoping to use this as a way to not only help and educate people on mental health but also as a way for me to cope with the depression and feelings of isolation. Sometimes just typing out how you feel and what you're experiencing makes it better, even if the relief is only temporary. I will try to keep this blog updated as often as I can; dealing with depression can often mean you don't feel like doing anything at all, making it almost impossible to get chores or any work done.
I hope you enjoy my blog. Until next time.
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