You should do something about your depression, it's hanging on way too much on your blog. If you read through its entirety, I'm sure you'll find it more depressing than Jane Didion's latest book. Perhaps you need daylight lighting in your home in winter to help offset the early dark nights that might trigger sadness?As much as it may have been well-intentioned, the writer shows a clear misunderstanding of both depression itself and of my blog. I read Joan Didion's latest book. Yes, it was depressing, but it was her truth. I don't write my blog for unselfish reasons. I blog, in part, to articulate what it is like to live with depression. It is always interesting to me how people who do not have depression regard it as some sort of weakness of character, or equate it with sadness. My depression is not due to lack of light; I have lived with this all my life and it hits me regardless of season. And if depression is hanging on "way too much" in this blog, I can't apologize. It's my life. C'est tout.
There is one bonus that creative types like me get from depression. I think it compels me to create beautiful things. So maybe then there is a balance after all.
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Right, Jon... C'est tout. Don't apologize. Certainly don't. People should like you for who you are, not for how they'd want you to be. I liked you from the first time I read your blog because you were true and honest with your depression. Call it a illness... Probably. Although, lately I have wondered if people not depressed were not just suffering of a kind of mental blindness... Which is worse ?
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