So Old A Pain: Depression in Fragments

"What is going on here?"

The writer asks much of his readers in these pages, inviting them to see him, hear him, and understand him amidst the grief, despicability, and thoughtfulness of major depressive disorder. This is a despairing narrative, anchored tenuously to reality by music, literature, and film. Hope flickers; COVID complicates.

"Are you listening? Do you understand?"