The Bartie Blog

I feel empty. I feel lethargic. My concentration span goes. I start lots of things, and then forget them. Time drifts. My mind wonders everywhere. I hear, but I don't listen. I dwell on something to much - I obsess. I constantly feel like I need something - but I don't know what it is, so I fill the gap with other stuff .... Don't ask me what is wrong, as far as I am concerned nothing is. 

I get depressed, and I get depression, and it's not good. It's not good for me, it's not good for my family, and not good for my friends. I find that most folk I know are very understanding (at least on the surface) and try to help - especially with advice. In this day and age, we all know about 'depression'.  We know it's a medical condition - that there is an inherent link between your state of mind and the chemical balance in your body, and that one influences the other.  And we all have a personal view on how it should be handled - or rather, how a sufferer should be handled. .....and it's this last point I want to try and address in this blog. We know so much about depression, but if you actually spend time with a sufferer, and let them explain how it feels to them, you might find your views of how to deal with a sufferer change. So, in a series of random postings, I hope to give you dear reader, a view of the world as I see it when I am d