On depression
For about 10 years now I've known that I'm diagnosed with depression. Upon going to therapy and receiving psychiatric treatment with the therapy I've come to terms with the fact that this will be a lifelong condition. One of the things that has always helped me cope with my depression, even before I knew that I had it, is writing what I feel. Poetry has always been easier to write in this way but I want to write a description of depression which ought not be read as universal or necessary. I'd prefer to say that it's phenomenological, in its own way. But I want to write it because I know that one of the feelings of depression is feeling like you are alone, and that this is a scary emotion which I've felt -- and as I said I find it therapeutic to write my feelings. Upon naming it and coming to understand which feelings and behaviors I have that are associated with depression it's not so bad -- it's just the thing that I get to deal with. Most people have...
