To the Wife Who Has Anxiety and Depression, From Your Husband

Written by Brandon Geib To my wife and my best friend, When we first met five years ago, I never thought I would be writing this. As we stood on stage in front of all of those strangers, acting our hearts out, I never once believed we would find ourselves here. We've come a long way. When we first met, I'd never been truly close to a person who suffered from long-term anxiety and severe depression. They'd been merely buzzwords thrown around too many times by people who couldn't think of another way to describe their daily frustrations. "I think I'm going to have a panic attack." or "Oh my gosh, I'm so depressed" became a monotonous phrase that strangers were all too happy to proclaim when the coffee shop ran out of their favorite muffin or they were forced to stay in the library a little later than normal to finish a paper instead of going to the bars with their friends. It was a signal to others they had problems and they wanted people to recognize and sympathize with their petty difficulties. But you were different. I never saw this monotony in you. To the contrary, you were always so bright and full of life and energy. But then, slowly, I started to see the side of you that you were so apt to hide from me and the rest of the world for fear of being found out. The multiple days where you would stay in bed, or not shower, or the days where eating a meal seemed like too much work. The times I would catch you crying and you would try to hide it in a (poor) attempt to...
Source: Healthy Living - The Huffington Post - Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news