Hope isn’t something depression allows much. Even if we’re told there’s hope, it’s painfully hard to hope. Hope means we can be disappointed and hurt. So hope is hard. We want to hope but we don’t dare to hope.
The paradox of self circles around the one person we don’t think is worth any effort or time, and yet is the center of our recovery. It’s simultaneously a scream to help us figure out what is wrong, then as[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
This is my first crossover between my comic and my blog about depression. I don’t know if it’s effective or not, but it’s my comic! Actually I don’t know whether this comic is at all effective. But I’ll just post[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
This is one of the saddest but truest conversations I’ve had to have in the past. But all in all it’s still nice to be loved and valued, even if we think we don’t deserve it.
Having two of my own, we had to decide whether, and how, to explain what depression is. It varies from child to child but communication is key. The sad thing is kids get depressed too. They need to know it’s[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
So how can you help someone with depression? That’s what the whole comic is about, but here are some tips. Thank you for being interested enough to read this.
I’m reposting this due to a technical error in my understanding of serotonin. So… Don’t believe everything you read on the internet without checking, mmkay? That being said… Serotonin! No one’s seen it actually do its work, but yet it’s[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Continuing the educational series on what depression is… I wish someone could crack the brain code. Life would be simpler.
So what is depression? It’s a mental condition which is best described and characterised by its symptoms for the simple reason that no one knows how to quantify what happens in the brain. That also makes recovery and acceptance difficult[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…