I’d visited Tobias and Maggie a few months before he died, not long after he came out of the hospital. He and I went for a drive together on a warm, beautiful day and I gave him my spiel, which probably included my basic beliefs that depression is brutal and viciously hard, and that it’s A-OK to find it terrifying. One of the worst parts of depression is that in its cunning, it wholesale convinces you that it will last forever. But that, of course, would be impossible. That is, I suppose, what I’d say to anyone dealing with it. I said it to him: it won’t last forever because it can’t last
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