I've learned to recognize, a lot of it forced through the process of recovery, that I'm wired wrong in certain ways; the chemical balance of my brain is off in terms of depression a little bit.
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I recognize a lot of the things I'm going through. Like, I lose my temper a lot and I become unhinged and kind of hysterical.
When you're clinically depressed the serotonin in your brain is out of balance and probably always will be out of balance. So I take medication to get that proper balance back. I'll probably have to be on it the rest of my life.
The authority of depression is horrifying. I felt like my brain was busted and that I could never feel good again. I really thought that I was never gonna heal.
My recovery from manic depression has been an evolution, not a sudden miracle.
Part of recovery is relapse. I dust myself off and move forward again.
I always thought I was depressive, and I only recently realized that I have more of an anxiety disorder than chronic depression.
I have suffered from depression for most of my life. It is an illness.
Through my own struggles with depression, I discovered that knowledge, therapy, medication and education can provide the strength to get through it in one piece.
I fight manic-depression, and I have been able to live battling that sadness that I get sometimes.
You're always searching for the thing to heal you, and I thought therapy would give me that. But it didn't - it just helps you recognize your demons.
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