In Search of Gumption

In Search of Gumption

My Dear Depression

Thank you

Oct 29, 2025
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It’s been 15 years since my brain went into its first government shutdown.

Isolation, internal emotional bleeding, and..ughh…impotence.

I hated depression with a deep passion.
If only I can surgically excise it from my brain, then I’d finally be the person I want to become.

I tried to cauterize it with Prozac. It was a definite meh.
Then I tried to amplif…

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