About Depression Talk Online…
Welcome to this site! I’m so glad to be here, writing about an issue that is so near and dear to my heart. The focus of Depression Talk Online will be mostly on just that: Depression and related issues. The content here is so broad and far reaching that I welcome and encourage comments at any time: I’d love any input readers have about what I’ve written!
My qualifications for writing on this topic are straightforward: I was diagnosed with Chronic Depression in the fall of 2006 after a rather rough and bitter battle with it. (I won, in case you were wondering.) It tried to take me out at the knees, but I managed to beat it away and now I am facing my life as a normal person again for the first time in a very long time. I *heart* being normal.
About me, specifically? Well, I’m 22 years old, in a few weeks I will have a degree in Sociology, I’m an aspiring fruit farmer, and I joke around about everything. I refer to my mental health issues as “Insanity” or any host of other things because I find it hard to call it what it is. Plus, people laugh when you tell them outright that you’re farkin’ crazy, and nothing beats getting a good laugh out of people. So, why not?
I have a cat, as well, because cat ownership seems to be a precursor to being a young, single, crazy woman. My cat doesn’t particularly like me, and sometimes I don’t particularly like her. But for the most part, we tolerate each other.
I come from a large and wild family: Most of us play an instrument or sing (or both, but not when we’ve been drinking), we are all rather formidable people (That’s a polite way of informing you that my brothers are giant and that I have enormous man-hands), and none of us are physically capable of conversing at a normal volume (Read: We yell. All the time. But we’re nice about it. Usually).
If there is anything you are curious about in regards to topics of discussion or myself, feel free to ask in any way you feel comfortable! Thanks for stopping by!
