James Laughlin describes a period of mild depression after his father died while he was a single parent running two companies. He argues the line between good and poor mental health is thinner than most people think, and recovery comes from self-awareness, asking for help, and knowing tomorrow is a fresh start.
I had a bout of mild depression about 10 years ago when a series of circumstances aligned with my father dying. As I mentioned, I was a single parent running two companies. What it surprised me was that boundary, that margin between good mental health and poor mental health is incredibly fine. And we need to be very protective of the bit that keeps us on the positive side, having the self awareness that actually sometimes you need to go and get help and talk to other people, externalise rather than internalized. What I took away from that is one, you always get to deal, other you always get to the other side that tomorrow when you wake up in the morning is another day you start again and you start just chipping away.
