Awhile back, I wrote about my struggles with clinical depression. How it steals parts of your life away. Well, things are looking a bit brighter these days and I wanted to share that part of the struggle, too.

Life is pretty good these days. My medications seem to have me balanced out. I’m no longer missing work. I’ve cut back on the therapy sessions because, when I get there, I just dodn’t have much to talk about. Both my therapist and I agreed that this is a Good Thing™. But most of all, I don’t feel quite so miserable all the time. So, all in all, I feel like I’ve come out of the other side of a really bad patch–which was made up of highs and lows all on its own.

To be sure, I still have some bad times. Nothing is all Pollyanna-Technicolor-Rose-Colored-Glasses here. I have to watch out for the pitfalls that send me down those rabbit holes of thought that have me spiraling into a funk. But I have tools to help me and support. That helps immensely.

I’ve also been throwing myself pretty hardcore into my hobbies–especially role-playing games. I’ve been creating adventures like a fiend and running the Wife through all sorts of adventures. Plus I have my regular gaming groups.

Anyway, this is all to say that if you suffer from depression and you see that wall of funk spring up in front you, there is an other side. There is hope. There are ways to help you through the morass. It’s not easy and it’s not fun, but it’s possible. And it will always be work. But it pays off in the end. You get your life back. And that’s pretty cool.