My Little Introduction

Well, this is the first post and I'm not sure how to start a project like this. I'm a fairly private person but I have been no stranger to the Catholic Blogging world. In total, I have ran four different blogs and have written and published for other websites and publications. Some of you will, no doubt, figure out who I am based on my writing style. So, let's just get some goals and ideas out there and what I hope to accomplish on this blog.

Depression and Faith?

I have suffered from depression for quite some time and didn't quite receive treatment until well into my twenties while at grad school. I was raised an American Evangelical of the Pentecostal/Charismatic variety. I initially lost my faith because of how that tradition regards people who are impoverished and have mental illness, which is to say that I kept being told to "pray against it." Well, to say the least I didn't find this advice helpful and eventually began to feel like God had abandoned me. When you feel sad and suicidal for no damn reason, you can kind of get sick of being told to just pray more. So, I left and began a journey into agnosticism and anarchism and then found myself becoming a Papist in 2004. I'll write more about that journey another time.

I'm writing this blog in hopes that other Catholics--and indeed any person of faith--might just know that they are not alone in their struggle. Also, this is a blunt exercise in getting a lot of my thoughts on paper. I hope it takes shape as I write more as this overly-personal prose is quite new to me.

As a note, I'm allowing comments but please keep it polite. Oh, and if you troll or are otherwise an ass, then just save yourself the time of writing.