一个抑郁患者的故事（英文）

长裙

"I was always upbeat. I loved -- I mean loved -- life. I played college ball. I loved sports. I loved to be active. But when I went into depression, and my family will tell you, they couldn't even get me off the sofa. And…I didn't have any energy; I didn't care about sex."   

"…It's just, you lose all your appetite; you don't care about doing anything. You just want to just lie there, you know."

"And I took my medicine. And I'd go to that mirror every day and I'd look in that mirror and I could see myself coming back. I could find myself. I could feel myself, you know, the Stuart Perry that was there before he got sick."

"And in that mirror every day, I got better and better and better. And finally, I came completely out of it."

"But then I look back on it now, and I think about (how) what I went through has taught me a tremendous amount about life. And it's taught me about family, and it's taught me about how much I love my family and that money doesn't mean anything. And…how much it is important to help somebody instead of me looking for somebody to do something for me. And that's what I try to do every day. I try to find somebody every day to help. After I came out of my depression, I knew something that most folks didn't know. I knew about depression. I knew what it was like to be in a different world and what it was like to come back out. And I call it my journey -- journey to the other side."

"What you have to do is be able to understand what's going on with you and to say, 'Hey, I've got something like heart disease or cancer or you know anything else. This is just like anything else. Help me.' And you'd be back up and kicking. That's what happened to me."

"…When I first came out of depression I (realized that I) had missed out on so much. And you have all this energy; you're just ready to go again. It's a wonderful feeling (being recovered from depression)…it's great."