 Horror/Scary: February 21, 2018 Issue [#8764] |
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This week: The Horror of Depression Edited by: W.D.Wilcox  
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The Horror of Depression
The World Health Organization estimates 350 million people worldwide suffer from some form of depression. And it’s time that we stop thinking of depression as simply a bad mood gone awry but rather as a brutal fatal disease. It’s that serious.
Coming out of a depressive period is a lot like the end of a horror film. You emerge from the dilapidated house, home to the reclusive stranger, having narrowly escaped your own demise. You’re dirty, with your hair amiss and you are covered with emotional and often physical scars. Yet you take step after step, blinking in the new light outside, amazed you survived the night.
You entered the house unknowing what you were getting into. Perhaps the house was inherited, maybe you are lured into it, or dared by a friend to “try” and enter the house. Maybe it is the only option on the street, the only property in your price range. There are many ways to enter a depressive period — it could be genetic, caused by trauma or the result of addiction or illness. Either way, it’s clear you would never have entered the house of depression had you known what it would contain.
Inside the house, each room is a life event — a new job, puberty, medication, addiction, homelessness and relationships. Cobwebs cover childhood memories and the locked cellar contains all the personal and familial memories you’ve locked away, waiting to be discovered. Within each room is the potential for the villain to lurk in a corner, and you stumble from room to room almost waiting for it to jump out, or for booby traps to ensnare you in depression and anxiety.
But anyone who has watched these films knows that you never enter the house alone. There is always a group of people with you, ready to be killed off at various stages. These are your relationships and friendships. Your career and hobbies. The first to leave doesn’t seem like such a loss — the superficial friends and extra activities you don’t really like. The people who are only there for the good times, the party friends who are always up for a drink but never around when the going gets tough. They’ll bait the villain, almost daring it out of the shadows, and thus they are the first to leave your life. They underestimated that depression even existed and that it could touch them. You don’t really miss them much.
There is a message of hope: “Whatever it takes, tear down the stigma. It’s an illness. It can be treated. People get better.”
Until Next Time,
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At this point, Ferris had become enraged once again. He screamed obscenities at the top of his lungs, wishing he could go back and save his precious wife.
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I felt lethargic as my depression began to envelop me. Why not? Maybe she can help me get some coke.
When he opened his eyes, confusion descended on him like a fuzzy gray cloud. He could have sworn he killed himself.
I don’t look at any glass, or anything that can show me my own eyes.
Don’t tell the others, Doctor, please. If they know I am speaking again, they may try to talk to me.
Even now, sitting on the edge of his bed, Jack figured everything would be just fine if he could kill himself.
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