What It’s Like to Live with Depression

We finally discovered that what I had was depression. I had battled depression before, but for some reason this time it caught me off guard. At one point, I met with a group of people who wanted to know more about what my depression was like, so I brought part of my weight set from home with me.

I had a volunteer carry a bunch of things across the room while also carrying two twenty-five-pound weights. I said, “This is what even the simplest tasks are…