poetandknowit1 Oct 2002

I am just looking at the words you put here and a quick perusal of your website. You describe the way people who have experienced depression like 99% of the other people who describe it. And that is not a bad thing, but you are attempting a different medium and maybe somewhere in here you have a chance or even the ability to hop over to that 1%. That is not an easy thing, especially if you are in a good comfort zone. It is not comfortable being a writer. And that is where I come in. Plus, you say you wrote many of your feelings as you were actually experiencing them. Now step back and think about that. What really can we accomplish that is worth a shit when we are depressed? Nothing. But we have the ability to understand the feelings, it makes us self aware and self obsessed and usually looking back does not take us to the pit again, but helps us understand where and why we were there. I.E. Poetry.