'The soul would have no rainbow had the eyes no tears.' John Vance Cheney
"Of pain you could wish only one thing: that it should stop. Nothing in the world was so bad as physical pain. In the face of pain there are no heroes." George Orwell 1984 I'm posting again on this platform for a few reasons. I find writing stuff down to be very therapeutic. Almost as if by excising it from inside my head is in some way removing it from it's little crevice in there for forever and I therefore don't have to think about it any more. I also think that awareness is key. I've written many times about my experiences with depression and anxiety. I've had people say it is attention seeking. They're probably right, but not in the way they think. The more attention and awareness around these debilitating illnesses the better as far as I'm concerned. For too long they have been simply swept under the carpet, or whispered behind doors. I have been depressed. I have MDD, Major Depressive Disorder. I didn't choose to hav