
English is my second language. You were my first.
Loved this piece. Thank you, and couldn’t agree with you more. I too, have struggled with life-long depression, but have been doing (mostly) well for a long time. My depression was primarily related to “pure O” OCD, so your statements about your brain “lying to you” makes perfect sense to me. Cognitive Therapy worked really well for me. The book…
Thank you for your honesty. I am a psychotherapist and have seen and worked with the “broken brains”. My heart goes out and I have always said that the individual had to be in so much pain to end their life. You are correct, we do suck at dealing with suicide. We need to talk about it in the open. We need to speak up about mental health, addiction…
I truly appreciate your thoughts. I don’t agree with a lot of what was said above, BUT as a Christian and therapist I have DEFINITELY taken away some things to think about. Thank you for sharing and being so vulnerable, I truly did enjoy being challenged to grow in my thinking. God bless you!
I couldn’t agree with your assessment more. Having lived with depression my entire life it has been the biggest struggle. Causes relationships to suffer, work to be inconsistent and life to feel meaningless, but thank God for the tools I’ve been equipped with. I just got through a year and a half stint of being depressed that almost sucked the life…