Photograph: Martin Godwin for the Guardian
If you suffer from depression you are not alone – it affects 15.5 million in the US, and more than 3 million in the UK. Mark Rice Oxley eloquently talks about his own experience with depression in today’s Guardian
I can’t say exactly when it started. Maybe the day in July last year when a headache in the shape of a question mark curled itself around my right eye and made itself at home. Or a month later, when a liquid fatigue poured into my legs and set. The autumn perhaps, when short, surreal episodes would come and go, like I was seeing the world through the bottom of a highball glass.
“Life has become more stressful and there is more alienation than there used to be. People who meet disadvantage meet it very much alone,” says Tim Cantopher, a psychiatrist and author of Depressive Illness: Curse of the Strong
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Source: The Guardian
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Mark,
I take my hat off to you for taking the time to share your experiences with others. As I write this message with many of the same feelings that you have encountered. You reached out for help, I have yet to do that. I was the one in control, I was the good mother who organised all that had to be done. I brought in the lions share of the money while husband was the house husband. The came the situ of huge down turn in work, no money coming into the house. Husband who really did not get it just kept selling off all our assets and here we are today
children left for university living on grants and us trying to pick up the pieces of a dreadful situation. Yes I could have written that article ad no one but no one knows what people with depression/nervous break downs are going through. Pick up the pieces, pull yourself together…… what I would do to have my life back again……. its tough and there has to be a way to move forward ……..Mark write a book when you are 100% better. People need to hear this and know they are not alone. I am so happy you are nearly there and pray that all your problems are behind you….. Take care and get the message out there to other sufferers.
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Thank you Angie for taking the time to comment. I’m sorry to hear of your struggle and hope you are able to find the help you need. Depression takes a tremendous toll on families.
Not everyone responds the same way to the stress that is increasingly becoming the “norm” as families try to juggle finances, work ….children.
The positive however is that the stigma that once surrounded depression and mental illness is slowly being eroded. Articles like Mark’s help others realize they’re not alone.
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