When Your Heart’s Off Underwater

A portrait of Major-Depressive adulthood.

Photo by Christopher Campbell on Unsplash

There will come a day when you slip, when, despite your best efforts, the alligators in your head will break through. It’s nothing momentous, you tell yourself that “I deserve a treat” or “I’m too tired to go to school today.” It’s a tiny thing, insignificant at the time. But when retrospect kicks in, you’ll be able to look back and say…