Derek Draper on depression
Derek Draper’s story in the Guardian about his struggles with depression, and positing quite a bit of hidden-even-from-the-sufferer depression (or as he calls it “latent depression”) may be of interest.
Only by dealing with underlying depressive feelings will the mind be freed from clinging to its old patterns for warding them off. If latent depression is acknowledged and faced up to there is the potential to live in a fuller, richer, more meaningful way. For if depression is not just about a set of particular symptoms but is actually emotional - and psychic - deadness, the possibility held out by change is no less than life.
Read the article. If parts of it sound far too familiar, there can be help; medication, therapy, or a combination may be what you need.
Young people, as this newspaper reported recently, are more likely to die from depression than from Aids, cancer and heart disease combined.
It may seem hopeless, but there is hope.
