Depression is a touchy subject and very misunderstood. Millions of people suffer with it worldwide but despite the best efforts of doctors and therapists, sometimes it's just not enough. Some will think that in time you'll overcome it whilst others think that action is needed.
I've personally suffered from depression during multiple points in my life with the most recent being the worst I've suffered so far. I've been signed off of work, lost my house, my long term girlfriend, my saving; I've racked up thousands of pounds of debt and it's all just started to get to me. And then I found steemit, the perfect cure for me.
The first few days I just browsed, constantly, going from article to article just reading whatever seems to take my fancy. After a while I eventually had the thought; "What if I could write something". This was when I published my first post. You can still find it on my profile, It was basically me talking about how all of you, the community of Steemit are great.
After publishing this I went on to think of other things I could write, I may not have any actual experience writing articles but it was worth a try! So I continued for days and days, post everything I could think of, anything to take my mind off of what was going on in my life. I wasn't making any money, but fuck it, that's not what this was about. The idea of this was for me to vent and hopefully create content people want to read.
It's working, as silly as it sounds it's really working. The motivation I've lost over the years is starting to come back to me. I started seriously trying to write a book and I've posted the works of my family members here in hopes of getting them a few readers of the work they produced. I've started taking care of myself and my routine is starting to take shape.
I may be far from full recovery and It may be a while before I'm off of anti-depressants all together, but I don't care. Because for the first time in too long I've finally found something I love to do; Create content and interact with other users of this great community.
Thanks for reading, I hope you don't mind the depressing content but my hopes for this is that someone sees it and tries to figure their own path out.