This book addresses living with depression and the isolation this can bring. In it I show how I have sought therapy, managed to work through issues and finally taken responsibility for my life and depression. I seek to share this hard-earned knowledge in the hope of offering a practical self-help guide for those struggling with similar issues and to this end I have included a chapter devoted to the tools I have found useful to help maintain a reasonably contented life. The use of poetry gives an extremely emotional insight into this world whereas the prose offers a more rational, as well as...