How Medication Can Help
I will forever be grateful that in the year 2000 when I went to my doctor and said, “I have so much to be grateful for but I feel so alone, so sad, so angry, so lost…” that he suggested that I might have clinical depression. I am grateful that he saw the signs and […]
Postpartum Depression
I have five children. I had them in seven years. There were many days and nights, months and years, of “things being gloriously out of balance” as my husband would say! I don’t recall ever feeling anything more than the “baby blues” with my first four children. According to the Mayo Clinic (2012), symptoms of […]
It’s Just a Chemical Deficiency
I had listened to the general ideas behind depression during the first ten years of battling it. I heard, “It’s incurable…it’s a chemical deficiency…embrace it just like you would if you had cancer…it’s not going to go away…” My personal favorite was that it was a chemical deficiency. This meant that I didn’t have […]
Just In Case You Think You Are Alone
I woke up this morning with this post on my mind. I have been writing this blog for a mere 2.5 months. Readership is now in the thousands. Most of you are silent readers. Some of you have said something to me and encouraged me to keep posting. And I will…because depression is not […]
How This Blog Began
I turned 44 years old this week. Really, I’m just 29! It’s the joke in our family—“Oh, yeah. Mom’s 29 this year!” I figure if I stick with the same number every year it will make it really easy for my kids to always remember my age! So why age 29 do you ask? Is she […]
