A Handful of Strings

PTSD, depression, anxiety, they are all different disorders, but they all have something in common. A feeling of isolation that you are alone in your fight. If you have never personally experienced this feeling, then you can not truly understand it. This is the closest I can get to describing that loneliness. It is a …

The Depressed College Students Guide to Navigating Classes….Do the Opposite of What I Did

There are a lot of people who have depression, anxiety and/or PTSD like I do and are able to attend classes. They are able to function like a normal human being. Unfortunately in the Spring of 2015, I was not one of them. As I stated in my earlier post Dark Days, I was suffering …

The Dawn

"It's always Darkest before the Dawn." Thomas Fuller said that in 1650, and while his body has crumbled away, his words remain in our current collective consciousness. In my experience, I have found it to be true. I was considering suicide. I had a plan, I had set a date, I had even come up …

The Dark Days

It is a common misconception that depression is being sad all the time. This is not true. When you are depressed, mostly what you feel is nothing. An absence in yourself. You feel no motivation, no joy, no anything. You might as well be feeling the equivalent to watching a pot of water, waiting for …