jude is the baby jamie is pregnant with. i knew this girl in high school.
at first i was taken aback by such forwardness on facebook. i shook my head and thought, “oh, hunnygirl. tmi, teee em iiiii.”
but then i thought about it and got really sad for her. because i take zoloft daily for depression & anxiety and know how awful it feels to have to go off of it. and then i got even more scared of being pregnant one day. because the combination of pregnancy hormones and no zoloft could quite possibly make me a crazyperson. maybe even suicidal, who knows. fuck, i don’t even want to know.
and then i was proud of her for speaking up about her depression — especially in a forum that is so public. and i know she made that shit public because i was never close with this girl and therefore wouldn’t be included in her fb ‘close friends’ pool.
so, thank you, jamie. thank you for being brave enough to share your mental health frustrations so openly. i know firsthand that depression is a real-ass thing — a debilitating, awful thing. and the stigma that has been placed upon it needs to go away. for good. too many lives are being lived without happiness for reasons they cannot understand or fix on their own.
and i for one am tired of not talking about it.
