My depression is lifted each evening around 5.30 when i have my 1st of 2 IPAs, but not for long, unless we go out then i'll sometimes have another 1 or 2; but those extras beers can set off my atrial flutter & i sometimes have to got to emerg to get electrocardioverted & that's depressing as hell.

I am on medication for clinical depression. My life is 100% better. Depression and related anxiety has been the bane of my existence all of my life. I still feel the physical effects of anxiety - upset stomach, diarrhea, of breath, etc. But the depression is mostly gone.

Robin Williams suffered from Lewy Body Dementia, a different, and uniquely horrific, disease.

When you run out to hope, meaning and purpose, the rest means nothing.

One piece of Hemmingway’s advice that has stuck with me through the years. “Write hard about what hurts. “