Depression is a serious mental illness that affects most of us at some point in our lives through our friends, loved ones, or personally. Lots of folks have some experience of depression during their teen years, but what if that depths-of-the-ocean kraken never went away? What if there was an ongoing lingering threat that you could slip back into it at any time?
My experience of depression has been sort of like that, an ongoing, cyclic struggle with depression that’s worse in the winter and then a little easier to manage when I’m out in the sun. I cope with therapy, UV light treatment, meds, and a host of strategies implemented from therapy. Currently, my depression is peeking through all of that as it’s January. Friends on meds have suggested I increase my dose in the winter, which is a great idea.
Today, I have one of my older friends, wicked, on the show. Her experience with depression isn’t that different from mine, but I’ll let her tell you about it herself.
Resources
Unhelpful Thinking Sylte
https://healthywa.wa.gov.au/Articles/U_Z/Unhelpful-thinking-styles
https://twitter.com/odawnip/status/1003036622429016071 (or if broken see https://intimatevictor.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/unhelpful-thinking-styles.jpg )
Questions
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Talking about Anti-Blackness (Gloria Jackson-Nefertiti)
Accessing Healthcare when Chronically Ill (Billie)
Talking about ADHD without a Script (Yana Skorstengaard)
Bullying at School, An Autistic Black Femme Speaks (Gloria Jackson-Nefertiti)
Serial Monogamy and Polyamory (Jet Noir)
Fetishization and Race (Jet Noir)
Freedom Fiction (SB Divya, M Lafferty, A Stuart)
Performers, Burlesque, and Identity (Jet Noir)
Ménage à Trois (Charisma)
Long Distance and Comets (Jazz Goldman)
Podcasting in the Time of Corona (Morgan)
Stigma, Herpes, Nonmonogamy (Charisma)
Queerness, Gender, and Misogyny (Tillie)
Chronic Conditions, Anxiety, Depression (Charisma)
Reduced Function Planning and Processing Loss (Tillie)
Art and Society (Sophia Sky)
Chronic Illness at a Kink Conference (Tillie)
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