An Introduction is always the most tedious bit. What to say about what? Salient bits: I’m in my mid-30s, I live alone with four cats (you can see where this is going), I hate my job, I have a crappy relationship with food and exercise (hang on, we’re almost there) and so, I’m probably totally normal and representative of 90% of the population. Anyhoodles, I’ve got all this crap floating around in my head like fish shit in an unclean aquarium, so I thought I would write stuff down to do a bit of purging. A Marie Kondo (“spark joy!”) but for the brain. Maybe? Am I mixing metaphors? Yes probably.
I’m also depressed. Did you guess, from the site title? I’ve had on-and-off depression most of my life. One might look at the situation listed above (mid-life crisis, hates job, little social life, probably fat) and come to reasonable conclusion that my depression is caused by these factors. Very reasonable. But I’ve been in the situation of late twenties, love job, pretty sexy bod, etc and I still had what one of my friends (yes I actually have some) called my “Blue Haze”. I put it down to brain chemistry, or something. The wine didn’t get swirled all round the glass.
But enough of all that. It’s tedious and tiresome to talk about depression, even though this blog is about depression. Instead, I want to talk about the funny side of being depressed. If anything, it will at least help pass the countdown to oblivion a bit more pleasantly.
So, welcome!
Depression Rules 