I want to say first, that ECT (Electro Convulsive Therapy) should not be your first option. You should try therapy and medications first. Yeah, I know meds come with a ton of side effects, but they often take away that “weight” of depression. You know the weight I’m talking about. It makes it so that…
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Drowning in Silence
For those of you who don’t know, I was diagnosed with severe depression and anxiety in 2011, after a very serious suicide attempt. So it’s safe to say that I was suffering long before then. As I look back on it now, I can’t seem to comprehend why I didn’t seek help sooner. Then I…
Celebrate The Small Wins
Life with depression is incredibly hard. Something that nobody tells you about beating depression, is that life doesn’t get much easier. I recently finished my ECT treatments, and I tout here on this blog that I am 99.9% cured of my depression. This .1% though, is getting rough recently. It’s all the bad habits that…
Out of My Mind 