It's funny how if you experience something enough, it become..
Added 2025-02-11 23:54:00 +0000 UTCIt's funny how if you experience something enough, it becomes normal, just apart of everyday life. You wake up, go about your day and this lived experience just lingers in the background and you don't even bat an eyelid.
This lived experience is depression.
You've probably heard me talk about this before. Or maybe you're reading about this for the first? It's like being stuck on a roundabout. Although it seems so simple to turn off, you just keep missing the exit, so round and round you go.
I've struggled with depression my entire life... Since I was 8 years old to be exact. And it used to rule my life. I would invite depression in, make room for it at the dining room table and tuck it into bed at night. But with time and slow healing, I've learnt to give this darkess less control, less of a voice.
As said by Jeff Foster, we can view depression not as a mental illness but on a deeper level, as a profound, and very misunderstood, state of deep rest, entered into when we are completely exhausted by the weight of our own false stories of ourselves.
