{"id":196528,"date":"2014-08-12T03:07:53","date_gmt":"2014-08-12T03:07:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2014\/08\/12\/a-few-things-about-mental-health-and-depression\/"},"modified":"2014-08-12T03:07:53","modified_gmt":"2014-08-12T03:07:53","slug":"a-few-things-about-mental-health-and-depression","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2014\/08\/12\/a-few-things-about-mental-health-and-depression\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A few things about mental health and depression and my own life<\/p>\n<p><!-- more --><\/p>\n<p>I&rsquo;m sad about Robin Williams. Doubly sad that it&rsquo;s an apparent suicide. I&rsquo;ve struggled with depression pretty much all my life, but i&rsquo;m grateful I haven&rsquo;t ever really been suicidal since I was a teen (and even then I never really wanted to <em>die<\/em> per se, if that makes sense). I&rsquo;m glad I finally gave medication a try and that it seems to be working. I&rsquo;m glad that I have a spouse that loves me and is willing to see me through. And that I have friends who are equally patient.<\/p>\n<p>If you&rsquo;re struggling, just know you aren&rsquo;t alone. My ask is always open. There are resources out there. Depression doesn&rsquo;t look the same on everyone, but it does whisper untruths in your ear.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/wilwheaton.net\/2012\/09\/depression-lies\/\" target=\"_blank\">This post <\/a>by Wil Wheaton is one of the things I turn to when I need to remember I&rsquo;m not alone, that many people, famous and not, struggle with the same thing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A few things about mental health and depression and my own life I&rsquo;m sad about Robin Williams. Doubly sad that it&rsquo;s an apparent suicide. I&rsquo;ve struggled with depression pretty much all my life, but i&rsquo;m grateful I haven&rsquo;t ever really been suicidal since I was a teen (and even then I never really wanted to &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2014\/08\/12\/a-few-things-about-mental-health-and-depression\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[1068,352],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196528"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=196528"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196528\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=196528"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=196528"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=196528"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}