Depression

DEPRESSION

JOURNAL ENTRY, 12/12/2015, 09:17, PST, Saturday, my place, 8°C raining hard with wind gusts, MOOD 50/50

This festive season and connecting with family and friends that you haven't seen for a while and realizing just how lucky you have been at slaying the demons of unhappiness and depression.

I have managed to conquer two addictions, actually three, except for two aspirin I don't do any drugs except caffeine in my two large coffees a day. I try to keep to the centre line never letting the mood dial get too high or too low.

It pains me when I see the twin addictions of tobacco and alcohol inflicting themselves on the people I love in their attempts to keep the black dog of depression from their door.

The doctors have no solutions except to further addict you to some big pharma solution that only serves to improve big pharma's bottom line.

Every family has the spectre of suicide haunting them. But what can you do when they smile at you say everything is fine and then do the deal, and as

Pogo said, “We have met the enemy and he (or she) is us.”

And on that hopeful note,

Ciao, JWL