“Ghostlike, you watch me in my morning shower,
You hover in the corner of the kitchen.
You sit seductively on the soft sofa
Wearing an evil smirk,
Beckoning for me to spend
My precious hours there with you.”
These are the first few lines of Elizabeth Maynard Schaefer’s poem about her own depression in her powerful book Writing Through the Darkness: Easing Your Depression with Paper and Pen. Schaefer, who has bipolar disorder, believes that writing saved her life. She also takes medication, and has received electroconvulsive therapy (ECT). As she writes in the book, “Writing was as healing to me as all my medical treatments—this did matter. Writing helped bring me back.”
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