Personal Narrative: How Depression Changed My Life

Waking up every morning felt like a burden that could barely be moved, crushing my soul at every waking moment; and one morning, there was nothing. Not a single bit of struggle, no burden, and no soul crushing. That moment has forever marked the time when I can say I overcame my hardest challenge yet: depression. The morning I woke up, feeling good about myself, feeling as if the world was at my fingertips, changed my life in ways nothing else has. It changed my personality completely, from being shy to being an extrovert, from being sad to happy, and from being insecure to confident about myself. The day I overcame depression was the first day of a brand new life, moving me to become the person I am today. Depression taught me countless things, but most importantly, it taught me life lessons I never would have learned otherwise. …show more content…
The biggest example of this is depression as an experience for my mind and body. Depression was a multi-year failure that continuously tore me down, destroying that hope for a brighter and better future. However, as I outlasted the burden of depression, I realized that it was not a failure meant to tear me down, but rather to build me up. Depression has created a new whirlwind of ideas and imagination that could never have been imagined, all because of a failure. That failure has brought that spark, that glimmer, that happiness that I have never thought would be existent, all because of one heavy hit, that has kept me going for years on this newfound confidence from