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(knock on wood)

I went on a three-month vacation to Halifax, Nova Scotia. Sometime around my last month there, my depression somehow vanished. The difference between then and now is very subtle. My life is still the same, but I’m less self-torturing.

Getting rid of depression is not, in my experience, suddenly hopping out of bed one day full of energy screaming “I’m cured!”. It’s more a matter of accepting that life can be and often is difficult, but that you can’t live a truly fulfilling life without accepting challenging situations and making the best of them.

I guess I’m rambling a bit. It’s so difficult to describe what goes on subconsciously in the mind. And my depression is different from yours or anyone else’s. I suppose the most valuable thing I can impart is that it truly is possible to overcome depression. I still get in grim moods sometimes, but those days are exceptions.

This article helped me quite a bit.