I really shouldn't show this, but it has been told to me that my personal insights of depression and all of its side dishes are by far more compelling than any original thoughts I might have for this world. So I show these: some poems that I wrote during the year in which I was no longer a practicing physician, yet still somehow severely depressed. I'm much much better now thanks to modern medicine and therapy. But these allow a little view of the inner workings of my mind ba

What follows is more musing from the brain of the craziest person I know. I've been told that the story of people with mental illness is something the world should hear, especially on the more personal level. Welp--you asked for it! There is a stereotype of the person with depression: the person who disengages from friends and family; the person who struggles to get out of bed, to go to work, or to do any activities at all; the person whose glum demeanor reflects a complete l