Today’s writing prompt for the WEGO Health – Health Activist Writer’s Month Challenge is to write an acrostic using either your illness, or the word HEALTH,

I am going to create one using the word Depression. It will be a description of what my depression felt like before I began depression treatment.

Please note, this is meant to describe how severe depression felt to me, it is not a description of how I am feeling now.

D – Dark, dangerous, and deadly

E – Existence is painful

P – Purpose unknown

R – Rage reigns

E – Endpoint reached

S – Sorrow fills me up

S – Soul Weary

I – Interest in life gone

O – Overwhelmed by fear

N – No hope, no way out, no longer want to be here