Depression as a wake-up call

"Curiously enough, I love my depression.
I do not love experiencing my depression,
but I love the depression itself. I love who I am in the wake of it . . .
I have discovered what I would have to call a soul,
a part of myself I could never have imagined
until one day, seven years ago, when hell came to pay me a surprise visit.
It's a precious discovery."
- Andrew Solomon, in
Noonday Demon: An Atlas of Depression

While no one enjoys the experience of depression, there is often a redeeming aspect in that it makes you a deeper person. It sobers you up, forces you to grow up, and realize that life is serious, and something more important going on than playing games.

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