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Depression, transability, etc

Written by Sean on Tuesday, May 17, 2005

I must admit, I "suffer" from chronic depression. Not just the "oh I’m feeling a little blah today" kind of depression. The kind that kicks me in the guts and has me crawl in a corner and not want to move away from there for days on end. I’ve had better periods, and worse periods. And while transabled attacks and depression periods sometimes happen at the same time, one doesn’t cause the other, I don’t think.

I do think that my transabled feeling can aggravate the depression, and I’d not be surprised if depression pushed transabled feelings to the surface. Going ’round and ’round, hand in hand. But I don’t think that one is the primal cause for the other, nor vice versa.

There are times when I am depressed and the transabled "thing" barely touches the surface. There are other times when I’m rocking and rolling under attacks of transabled feelings, but I’m most definitely not feeling down in the gutter and depressed.

I don’t think I’m the only one who is transabled and who also has depression. I’d be interested to know about others, see what they think of the relationship between depression and transability.