How to Get One Over on Depression.

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When I pulled off my eye mask and noticed that it was sunny, I was angry.

Frustrated, really.

I had wanted to lie in bed all day with my blanket over my head, wallowing in my lowness, wrapping myself in a cocoon of darkness.

A couple of hours earlier I’d noticed that familiar foggy wave of a depressive…

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