Memoir Of A Breakdown

I found myself sitting on the edge of a cold metal twin size bed in a small room that was devoid of any color.
I was completely alone.
My world had stopped spinning.
My mind had stopped functioning.
My body had stopped feeling.Diagnosis?
A psychotic breakdown.

This was my reality in April of 2003.

There I was, in spite of being happily married, a successful career woman, and the mother of two grown daughters, I was completely falling apart.

My lifetime of suppressing emotion and pretending there were no downtimes finally caught up to me …

… and I completely crashed.

Even though living with clinical depression is full of ups and downs, God has brought me tremendous healing and understanding since that time.

Over the past 14 years, my knowledge and understanding regarding clinical depression have continued to grow.  Now I want to share what I’ve learned with others.

If you, like me, struggle with depression, you’ve come to the right place.

If someone you love struggles with depression and you don’t know how to help them, you’ve come to the right place.

Please consider me your friend and resource on your journey.

We all have a story to tell, and I refuse to let depression take that away from us.

Together we can educate ourselves about the reality of mental illness and slowly but surely remove the social stigma by demystifying clinical depression. 

I found myself sitting on the edge of a cold metal twin size bed in a small room that was devoid of any color.
I was completely alone.
My world had stopped spinning.
My mind had stopped functioning.
My body had stopped feeling.

Diagnosis?
A psychotic breakdown.

This was my reality in April of 2003.

There I was, in spite of being happily married, a successful career woman, and the mother of two grown daughters, I was completely falling apart.

My lifetime of suppressing emotion and pretending there were no downtimes finally caught up to me …

… and I completely crashed.

Even though living with clinical depression is full of ups and downs, God has brought me tremendous healing and understanding since that time.

Over the past 14 years, my knowledge and understanding regarding clinical depression have continued to grow.  Now I want to share what I’ve learned with others.

If you, like me, struggle with depression, you’ve come to the right place.

If someone you love struggles with depression and you don’t know how to help them, you’ve come to the right place.

Please consider me your friend and resource on your journey.

We all have a story to tell and I refuse to let depression take that away from us.

Together we can educate ourselves about the reality of mental illness and slowly but surely remove the social stigma by demystifying clinical depression.