Blog posts I wish I had written - Part 1
I haven't spoken a lot about the myriad of other blogs that I read and enjoy, there are quite a few of them. I mention some of their posts on Twitter but I haven't written much about them here. That means that I have not introduced you to the wonder of Hyperbole and a Half by Allie Brosh - unless you have the great joy of already knowing about it.I was Stumbled onto her wonderful post How a fish almost destroyed my childhood a while ago now, and then promptly forgot all about the site. But I was reminded to check up on it the other day.Allie had not posted any updates for quite a while, which is probably why I tend to forget about the site a little. This is because she has been suffering depression. She wrote a post about depression in October 2011, and then there has been nothing for a while, until May this year.This would have been a brilliant post to know about when I did my more recent post on depression, because I don't think that I've ever seen the feeling (or non-feeling) of depression explained so well (it completely craps all over my attempt).It is a post called Depression Part Two and I would recommend that everyone read it - she does the most amazing drawings so it's a pretty light read (well as much as a post about depression can be).For those of you who are fortunate enough to not have this experience in your lives, it's a fantastic insight for you into why we can't just pick ourselves up out of it. For those of you who have experienced it, I hope that you find yourself smiling and nodding like I did - the dead goldfish analogy is priceless!
I feel fortunate to know about some of these resources that help me remember I'm not abnormal, and I feel very neglectful that I have not shared them with you before. I also feel fortunate that we caught my depression fairly early this time and I didn't get fully into the stage of wanting my life to end - does it make me a bad person that I laughed really hard at this panel from her post.Trust me, it has a happy ending (well not a crappy ending anyway). Just go and read the post, or maybe read the fish one first to prepare you for her sense of humour.