The first time I felt totally hollow, I was 14 and I’ve been chased by that feeling for 25 years. I now wake up every morning in mental agony. I’ve tried therapy, medications, prayer, meditation, 12-step groups, healthy diets, supplements.
It feels like I’m drowning in quicksand as my failures (career, personal) have mounted while I’ve spent time lost to this (so many days I couldn’t get out of bed, or could get out of bed but didn’t leave the house, or left the house but it didn’t matter).
Whatever promise I had is gone. There’s no friends, no family, it’s been 7 years since I had […]