The Year Of Living Desperately (My Journey Towards Mental Health Wellness And The Abject Failure Thereon)

So I’ve lived with clinical depression for over 40 years, or actually 56 years considering it’s hereditary, but it first consciously manifested itself during my formative and very tumultuous early teenage years. I vividly remember living with an OCD-like obsession of making sure all of my thoughts, my brain chatter, were expressed to somebody, anybody, just to get it out of my…