Depression Present Tense

Through first-person vignettes, experience the sounds, sights and feelings of depression as one man has lived it. The moments of crisis, insight and recovery can be overwhelming, and life itself is always at stake.This chronic illness can be many things, and these stories cover the range from emptiness, anguish and panic to anger, obsessiveness and suicidal urges. There is no simple pattern here but a present that is tense, changing, recurring, empty, full, ugly and beautiful. And there are insights that have helped retrieve the grace and love in small moments and long days. Those moments gradually become more frequent, link to one another and begin to turn the whole tenor of life to something beautiful and simple once again. Recovery becomes possible by regaining belief in oneself and opening the chance for a life of hope and achievement.