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Meds, Mind, Body & Benefits => Mental Health & HIV => Topic started by: buginme2 on May 13, 2013, 01:19:52 am

Title: The Black Dog
Post by: buginme2 on May 13, 2013, 01:19:52 am
The poet Les Murray described depression as being followed around by a black dog.

Allie Brosh posted on her blog a simple and smart chronicle of her recent struggle with depression.  It's brilliantly simple and described such a complex and misunderstood illness. here (http://hyperboleandahalf.blogspot.com/2013/05/depression-part-two.html)
Title: Re: The Black Dog
Post by: Theyer on May 13, 2013, 04:23:46 am
Winstan Churchill described his frequent episodes off depression as the  " The Black Dog"
Title: Re: The Black Dog
Post by: OneTampa on May 13, 2013, 09:24:00 am
The poet Les Murray described depression as being followed around by a black dog.

Allie Brosh posted on her blog a simple and smart chronicle of her recent struggle with depression.  It's brilliantly simple and described such a complex and misunderstood illness. here
 (http://hyperboleandahalf.blogspot.com/2013/05/depression-part-two.html)

I agree Allie's chronicle is excellent.  Thank you.
Title: Re: The Black Dog
Post by: Dr.Strangelove on June 01, 2013, 09:52:58 pm
I love it!

I read part #1 of the comic some years (?) ago and loved it. This one is spot-on, again.
For me, depression is the single worst thing I experienced in my life. If I could pick to erase one thing from my life, either the years of depression or getting infected with HIV, I would chose the former without hesitating...

When I got diagnosed with HIV, one of my worries was that I would get depressed again. Thankfully, that did not happen.