Happy Minds Podcast Series With Janet Groom

Let's Talk About Depression... I suffer with DEPRESSION...    There I am saying it out loud.  I am telling the world. It has taken me decades to put this out there.   It has been my constant companion for a lifetime and it is only now I have the courage to share this with the world. Why is DEPRESSION such a TABOO subject?   Why is there is so much STIGMA associated with it?   Why must we keep it hidden like some terrible secret? Well, I know that for me it felt like a mantel of SHAME I was wearing.   If I dared to admit it, even to myself, I was acknowledging that I was FLAWED and, in my mind, WEAK.  Instead, I tried hard to keep it under tight wraps and worked hard to show the world at large I was a strong and capable woman.    It was so much hard work wearing this mask and trying to control every aspect of my life.   I realise now that I was purely SURVIVING and not really THRIVING.   Of course, there were episodes of