Are You Ready To Die? - Foreword

This is my story about depression and anxiety and what it is like to live with it. Your story may be the same or it may be very different. The key thing is not to compare stories, but to get the stories out there. There is a stigma surrounding mental health and the people who suffer, it is time to break that stigma.

A Good Day

Sitting on the verandah, breeze gently blowing
Hanging with my wife, for this its worth living
Beer in my hand, child on my knee

Darker and Darker...

Darker and darker, the blackness closes in. Closer and closer, Demons, torture and pain. The warrior within me raises his shield, but lifting it becomes harder with every day I awaken. Weary and tired, his sword moving slower. The fight is too hard, the battle too long, the years have worn on, the onslaught too strong.