I'm Still Human: Understanding Depression with Kindness

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~ Useless ~

This is my healing diary that I use to compile all the valuable advice and encouragement given by my psychiatrist for me to cope with depression. It’s some sort of a reference book in my life for battling with depression. I love the diary - it’s life-saving. But it’s also sometimes stressful to read this diary, especially when I have a severe depression relapse. “Why?” you’ll probably ask. It’s because I find myself useless for not being able to practice correctly according to the suggestions given by my psychiatrist. I truly understand that my psychiatrist has done a great job by trying endlessly to treat my resistant depression. Yet I can’t make

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