• Depression Means You Don’t Remember Any Good Days:

And You Have Few Happy Memories.

In my teenage years, I had major surgery and my mom died. It had taken five years of illness before my mom lost her life, and I was so used to her being ill, that I didn’t know it was going to happen when it did. As an adult, that seems hard to imagine, but I had lived with this situation since age 12. I still had my dad and siblings, but my life had been changed forever.

For the next several years, I was in a permanent state of fear about losing my dad too, and I’d ring his work if he were five minutes late home…