tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8208953.post-10817771528232407452008-02-05T18:43:00.000-05:002008-02-05T18:43:00.000-05:00Over the course of my nine months of writing coming only with extreme difficulty -- five of which I spent crawling ever-deeper into the bowels of clinical depression -- it was a great relief to think to myself, "Maybe it's writer's block." (Same with thinking to myself, "Damn, maybe I'm depressed!" after those many months of feeling awful all the time, crying at night, loathing myself, lying in the dark for hours listening to music because I lacked the energy to do anything else ...)<BR/><BR/>I identify strongly with your journal; I've been perusing the archives. I've gone into detail about my depressed period so that you can examine your life for the past several weeks/months/years and see if what I'm saying reminds you of yourself.Andershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17422613068637418511noreply@blogger.com