Depression!

We have been MIA for the past few months and we are truly sorry to the people who follows us.

Lets talk depression.

As a woman you constantly have so much to juggle.But as a black woman its like it triples. A few days ago I found myself in a depressive funk. I wasn't eating, I was constantly crying, and I couldn't get out of my bed, it felt like a rhino was sitting on my chest. I felt like a failure at everything. I dropped out of college to chase after some boy. I jumped from job to job. Missed opportunities for advancements because it would take me away from "the love of my life". I was just not liking where I was in life. I laid there reflecting on all the decisions I have made in life and ow my life would be if I had just followed my head and not my heart at the moment. I began to cry because I felt helpless, broke, fat, ugly, and stupid. I wasn't making the amount of money I would like to, I'm 30 and still single, being told I can't have kids, overweight, bills stacking up, not happy in my profession, etc. Just felt like the world was on my chest.

I texted my friends asking how they dealt with depression and they gave me some good advice. I had to just take a minute to think on everything that was going right in my life. I had a good stable job, I have great friends, an awesome family, a beautiful foster child, I can walk, talk, see, hear, I was in my right mind, I have a good car, building a home, etc. As I began to think on the many blessings the weight on my chest finally was lifting and I began to feel better. But I think about the woman that go thru depression on a daily who don't have friends or family to help talk her thru it. How can we as women help each other?!?!?!?!?!!?

Yours,

HerShe