Depression

   For those concerned about my abrupt absence from blogging and the internet in general, I'm working my way out of a deep depressive episode.  I've been told this sometimes happens after multiple traumas both large and small.  After a major flare up of my chronic lung condition requiring a hospital stay, an unanticipated death in my immediate extended family occurred.  Atop this were problems with my home group caretakers and residence.  I thought I was strong enough to cope with any and everything life could throw at me.  But deep down my own mind betrayed me.
  I sought help for my lethargy and emotional retreat from my personal physician who performed blood tests and a complete physical that found nothing wrong with my body and health.  I was told I needed to consult a psychiatrist.  Now over the years I have had much interaction with that branch of medicine.  My impression of their competence has been on a par with TV weathermen.  Too many of them simply throw various drugs at the problem until something seems to stick.  Others just sit and listen to people who solve their problems themselves while paying exorbitant fees to someone who then lauds his successful treatment.
  I finally decided my best course of action was to work through it myself.  I've gotten myself back to work, have resumed watching the Unity Church Sunday broadcast, rattling the cages of right wing posters on the internet and lastly writing again.  Please bear with me, there is still a way to go.  As Robert Frost writes "the woods are snowy dark and deep and I have promises to keep; and miles to go before I sleep"