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Fundamentally, My Story is One of Hope
While working on setting up my website, I struck up a conversation with someone at the café as I wrote. I shared with him the name of my website – ‘Diary of A Depressive’. He questioned the name, wondering if it shouldn’t have a more positive title. Shouldn’t it be something that sounded more hopeful?…
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The Practice of Cutting Fresh Herbs
My depression makes the past and the future dangerous places for my mind to dwell. The past is filled with things that I cannot change that I will ruminate on endlessly if I don’t check myself. The future is filled with things outside my control and “what-if” spirals that can rapidly increase my anxiety if…
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Self-Care is survival
Self-care is about survival for me. One of the transformational things I learned in treatment is the practice of self-care and learning ways to incorporate that into my daily life. As a depressive, there is a darkness within me that is always working to destroy me – which is why it is so important that…
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Ode To Chives
The chives have started coming up – and all at once I am reminded of two important things: that I have survived the winter, and that spring is indeed coming. Chives are one of my favorite ingredients. And, as I like to remind anyone who will listen, they are the first and last crop of…
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AJR’s “Way Less Sad”
Here’s a link to the song, give it a listen before reading. When I heard this AJR song on the radio when it first came out, I loved it. Not just for the catchy pop tune that instantly got stuck in my head, but for the way it painted my reality in a way I…