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Welcome to Depression Recovery
Welcome to the Depression Recovery blog! If you suffer with depression or love someone who does, you have come to the right place for encouragement and practical help. I am not a health professional, but I know the darkness of major depression and the crippling effects of anxiety and OCD that often accompany it. Living with depression, I masked my way through daily life, waking each morning feeling as though someone had died and then realizing....it was me. Perhaps you agree that a fitting definition of major depression is death without the benefit of being unconscious. If that sounds a little dramatic, then that's good. If it sounds painfully accurate, then you've come to the right place, because I also know what recovery is! Take heart, friend. I invite you to read my blog from the beginning post and onward as I have logged my progress (and lack of it sometimes), and have not only spotted the light at the end of the tunnel, but have emerged into its presence!
I invite you to email me at simmonsmg@wildblue.net if you have questions or comments as you read.
Starting Your Journey
Begin your journey to depression recovery by starting from the first post. ~ To read it, click here.You may also click here to read all the posts for 2009, then continue in reading the archives for 2010. Please remember to start with the last post and work your way backwards to the most current post. Thank you! *
Welcome Back!
As I have felt my "real" self returning, I have also felt regret for the time that is gone. Time that seems to have been wasted, and it gives me a feeling of lament, wishing I'd been more "present" for my family, etc. But, again, the Holy Spirit has kindly brought my attention to Scripture...I will restore to you the years that the swarming locust has eaten." What an appropriate description of depression: a swarming locust! But now the swarming, chewing, destructive locust is dead, and the plant is thriving! Depression recovery doesn't erase life's problems. But a recovered brain provides the ability to handle them more clearly and productively. And the joys of life are fuller! It would be enough for me to realize this progress just myself. But it is especially encouraging to realize that others are observing it in me too! I think the comment that has thrilled me the most, though, came from Mark, who has unfailingly seen me through this whole journey, as he was observing me with a smile and said, "Welcome back!"
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