I'm Still Human: Understanding Depression With Kindness (Expanded Edition - 2021)

~ New Discoveries ~
2 October, 2011 – A gloomy day and the depressive storm was
coming. “I must not surrender. I must do something to protect
myself,” I reminded myself. I managed to do something this time –
gardening.
Throughout the activity of pulling weeds in my garden, I finally
understood that the mind is also like a patch of garden. I discovered
that my mind garden is full of weeds too. I never bothered to pull
out the weeds. Worse still, I “fertilized” them. That’s how I ended up
as the hopeless, useless, weak and depressive Jasmine.
I remember clearly that my psychiatrist told me that besides pulling
weeds, I need to plant good seeds in my mind garden so that the
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