"The View From My Depression"

by Chris Bodenner

A reader writes:

As a gay man with HIV/AIDS living with the virus, medications, doctors, hospitalizations for 20+ years, HIV is in and of itself a depression.

In 2005, my partner passed away and his father sued for possession of our house.  The court granted the father a lis pendens, which made the property unsellable.  I became ill again in 2006 and was placed on state disability.  Unable to work and unable to continue the court costs, the house was foreclosed upon.  My...