The Creative Mental Health Series, #5: How to handle setbacks and shift into a new paradigm in your life after depression
I was talking to a friend and I can’t even remember what it was about but it was a little sad.
(Important: only a little sad. Like a news article or something.)
But suddenly, I felt a rush of that terrible but familiar feeling of falling.
To me, that is a sign of my depression rising back up to the surface. I can go months, years without worrying about it, but when I get that feeling, it’s like being a tightrope I can fall off any moment. And if I fall, it's not as bad as hitting the floor with a little "ouch" like regular sadness - it's having a trapdoor in the floor open beneath my feet and falling into the river styx in the core of the earth.
