Plant a Garden Around Your Life

by Wendy S. Delmater

How do you say “Telling a depressed person to cheer up is like telling a quadriplegic to stand” and still give hope for depression?

As a poet, the author captures what is so hard to communicate: the harsh breadth and depth of how depression feels, so that the unafflicted can offer useful assistance. And the verses tell a story of recovery that sings hope and promise.

129 pages, Kindle Edition

Published July 7, 2016

About the author

Wendy S. Delmater is the author of Confessions of a Female Safety Engineer, Better Dating Through Engineering, Writing the Entertaining Story, and has been Editor at Abyss & Apex Magazine since 2006. She also edited The Best of Abyss & Apex, Volumes 1 through 3.

A transplanted New Yorker, she now lives in Lexington, SC. Wendy’s Amazon Author page is https://www.amazon.com/Wendy-S.-Delma...
Follow her on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/wendy.delmat...
Twitter handle: @safewite

Reviews

[Bonnie Randall · Rating 5 out of 5]

"Paranoid defences were a necessity then / But they get in your way now" ; a line that speaks to the emergence from depression and how some old habits will have a tendency to linger.
Or:
"Children / Even adult children / Without parents who care / Are like the walking wounded". Yes, we are. And as such, some of us will seek love in the most maladaptive places.

For anyone who has struggled with depression - and felt misunderstood, or even persecuted as a result - these poems will resonate with you, and you'll see yourself in the poignance of the lines.

5 reflective Stars