This book is one man's story of descending into the lowest imaginable level of depression. Specifically, it focuses on the unrecognized symptoms of the disease and its eventual diagnosis. The diagnosis led to several weeks of hospitalization. After being discharged from a psychiatric health care centre, my life in recovery was very much affected by depression. The title refers to the positive ways in which my life has been changed by a physical illness, about which I knew nothing until it struck me in September 2002. A few weeks after my discharge, a very close friend, Gerry, made an...