Personal Narrative: How Depression Changed The Interconnected World

I live in a world filled with people. They are neurons, not humans. They are the very mechanism by which you think. As one of them, I know what goes on inside your head. We all work together in a network. This is partly the story of how depression changed the interconnected world I live in. My world has a name: Mary. To you, it may be another person, but she is where I live. I am in something you call a brain.
To understand how this world works, you need to know what happened when we first appeared. During the first 5 months of the existence of Mary, plenty of activity was happening. All of us were not quite what we are now. We were all coming into existence as pairs from preexisting parents. After we fully developed, we migrated to our permanent residences using long roads. My group traveled to the front of the brain, an area called the prefrontal cortex. Once we reached our location, each of us was told by our neighbors what to do. My job was to be part of a chain that helped Mary maintain her mood. Then, each of us began a search for others to start …show more content…
Because I have no information, I do not have anything to say. The people I usually talked to stopped talking to others. Because of our inactivity, Mary did not have the ability to regulate her mood. Depression had hit her. She no longer had a happy view of the world. She first started feeling the effects at 3 o’clock in the morning, when she was 30. She had a long, hard week ahead of her and she felt depressed. It took another month before she felt it again. Afterwards, the symptoms got worse and worse, until her family took her to a psychologist. Only then was she diagnosed. The doctor said that she could take an antidepressant medication, which would help alleviate the symptoms. She soon started taking these. I started to receive more messages from my neighbors, and I sent more messages to my other neighbors. The medication helped all of us communicate more