“Because a life filled with depression—sadness and stress and the tumult and drama that comes with such a life—can be addicting. After you live with it long enough, you only feel normal if you are mired in darkness. No, I do not mean the Darkness that is accompanied by evil. I mean the darkness that is an absence of joy, of lightness of spirit, of happiness. Depression is an abyss—a pit from which it is difficult to emerge.
