Depression

I've experienced depression before but not acutely like the clinical type where one engages in self-inflicted pain.

At the end of Year 3 Sem 1, when revision week for exams started, I fell into what I call the "cesspit of depression". For the first two days of revision week, I couldn't do anything. Literally. I revised but nothing sank in. I'm really lucky to have Elan as my friend. After having a good talk with she who had also been through this crisis, I felt much better. THEN and only then, my revision started.

I've been depressed before but that kind of numbing depression that paralyses you and leave you helpless was a first for me. It was terrible. I was no better than a useless person good for nothing save to convert oxygen into carbon dioxide. Anyway, I wish I never have to hold hands with depression again. It is depressing to be depressed. Depression, like other states of mind, will become part of one if held on too long.