Knock-knock. Who is it? It's depression. Come in!
Photo by Hadi Slash on pexels.com I haven't written anything here in a long time. I'm sorry about that. I guess depression has reared its ugly head again and I've allowed it to defeat me for a while. I've been sleeping too much, lying in bed all day and ruminating about what I've done to myself and all the mistakes I've made throughout my life. But, from all my reading and research about depression, I know this mental health issue is just a symptom. In my case, depression hides my complex PTSD and shows itself during times when I feel like I've failed at something. Why does depression occur? My understanding is that, in general, people with complex trauma have no idea how to process their traumatic experience as a child. They go through life trying to ignore what happened to them when they were small and defenceless. However, ignoring your trauma will only create more trauma in your current reality. That doesn't sound good, you might think. It's no...