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RE: Faking Perfect - Where has my steam gone?
Welcome! This community is so wonderful, and I'd venture to guess you'll love it. Having spent somewhere in the neighborhood of three years in a deep, dark depression, not knowing I was in it until I realized I was hoping to die nearly every single day, I'm grateful for your willingness to speak up and advocate and assist healing. Welcome, welcome.
Thank you so much @solarsupermama for such a wonderful welcome but not least for being so open. It's always an honour and makes me smile when someone can speak up for themselves - it's the hardest step.
It really fascinates me how depression can be spotted so much easier from the outside by others, yet so ignored by so many, whilst at the same time remain so unknown and undetected to those suffering.
We just don't know what we don't know - the dark has no logic and struggles to find the light to shine on it!
I really look forward to getting steamed with you!
Kindest DJ
I look forward to it too! I found being open was the biggest key to bringing healing. Since then I've been really vocal about bringing mental health issues into the light. When I realized what was happening, I discussed it with my son, who was 18 at the time and dealing with his own depression. I told him I wasn't sure how long I'd been there, maybe since the birth of my last child. He immediately affirmed that was the case and told me he'd noticed a huge change at that point. I just didn't see it.