Introduction

When depression takes hold, why does even God seem to fall silent? By James Mumford I am a Christian. I suffer from depression. The relationship between those two realities is hard to write about because I often feel they have no relationship at all. No one can tell you what it is really like to be profoundly depressed. Dipping about depression is necessarily retrospective. Recording the experience in the media's rez is impossible. Depression is too paralyzing. It precludes anything as constructive as writing. If you have lost all your mirth, you languish in corners,. You mope and cry and shout and scream. But you don't finesse prose. There's something about depression that