Personal Narrative: A Personal Experience With Depression

To the individual who is experiencing it, depression is an unstoppable force that relentlessly attacks its defenseless victim non-stop. It is an overpowering predator that renders its prey helpless by destroying its will to survive. Depression rapes the soul and extinguishes the fire of the spirit, leaving an empty vessel in its wake. Depression is destruction; physically, psychologically and spiritually. In fact, depression almost destroyed me.
It has been almost ten years since my first battle with depression. For three months I was totally debilitated. At the time I remember thinking, feeling and believing that my life would never be the same again. But to my complete and utter amazement I eventually found help that restored my mind and body to a normal state. It seemed like a miracle at the time, but that was before I learned about the condition.
After having six or seven serious bouts with depression I know how powerful it can be. But through learning and experience I have proven to myself that I, or anybody else for that matter, can become even more powerful. The individual simply needs to understand the nature of their opponent (depression), believe the fact that it can be beaten (thousands of people have overcome depression), and become proactive in their own healing.

Depression brings about an apathy, emotional numbness and lack of energy that is completely unprecedented for someone who has never experienced it before. Furthermore, depression is an extremely difficult condition to overcome because, in order to overcome it, you need everything that the depression has seemingly stolen from you in the first place; most notably energy, motivation and