Legitimate Biological Disorder

Depression. Attached to the refrigerator this morning was an article about the nasty and ugly disease depression. All of you know that Beth has been battling SAD(Severe Anxiety Disorder) and moderate depression. That is no new news. It has made things difficult between us at times. More so my lack of understanding of the matter. I do understand how it affects people of all ages and what it does to their lives. For years I listened to my father say how he was depressed and in his mind it justified his impulse behavior and how he reacted to my siblings and I. My brother also suffered from depression for years and now has become unbearable to be around. I was a young teenager the first time the phone rang when my brother attempted suicide the first time. Then the years following it rang many more times concerning the same matter. Years later when my dad and mom split up my dad took some sleeping pills and said it was a suicide attempt. Then a couple of years later when he remarried he had a flip out attempt and tried to hurdle himself of a balcony at Myrtle Beach which landed him in the South Carolina Mental Hospital. I have to apologize to my wife Beth about my ill feelings of when people say they are depressed. For years I heard my dad say it but he never received the help he needed.

Same for my brother. In men it can turn them into a raging fire ball. It can do the same I think in women plus you also have to throw in their hormones. My mom has battled anxiety from her current job. So to get to the point of the matter, I do understand that depression is an illness. I saw first hand growing up what it can do to a family. Keep Beth, Christian, and I in your prayers as we share in this fight together. Thank you to all who have supported Beth in her every day battle she has with this disease. And that is The World According to Thad.