PSYCHIATRIST: Well, how can I help you?
ME: I think I have mild depression.
Should I go into detail?
“Why do we find it so difficult to be honest with our feelings? Is it because life exhausts us so much that we don’t have time to share them? I felt an irresistible urge to discover others who felt the way I did. So I decided, instead of searching for them in vain, to become the person they could search for – to raise my hand high and shout ‘here I am’ in the hope that someone would see me, recognize themselves in me, and come closer, so that we might find comfort in each other’s existence.”