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Inspiration Is the Opposite of Depression
An open letter to anyone battling with depression
To anyone struggling with depression, my heart goes out to you. This is a letter for you.
When the weight of the world weighs down on us, what can we do?
A long fight with depression that has spanned over a decade leads me to a conclusion: it always meant that I knew deep down inside that I wanted something more.
That I knew something in my life wasn’t working, and I had to make a change. But I didn’t know where to start. If you will, an incubation period that maybe those days I stayed in bed and couldn’t face the outside world, that I was just a caterpillar waiting to be a butterfly. A flower that needed to be watered. That when I was ready, the teacher would appear.
Think about what it means to depress something — to push it down.
Depression feels like a weight is pushing down on you, and you’re unable to move. I had to learn how to remove the mental weight, all the weight I was carrying around from the past, the mental weight I was carrying around day in, and day out that finally got so heavy I couldn’t move.
