From the Jill Schwartz Memorial Library, here in Sanctuary, Savannah, Georgia, this is obscure

season 3, weathering heights, I am your host, your friend, your earlover, your literary

mansplainer in chief and Georgiaologist Michael E. and Black Southern gentleman Esquire,

reporting to you today on a slightly elevated note. The last several days, maybe even the

last week, have been difficult for me. It's not something I talk about very much because

it's not something that generally impacts my life too often, although perhaps that is

changing in not in a good way. I probably have mentioned before that I like so many of you have

chronic depression. Now, for the past many years, I have been taking a low dose of an anti-depressant

called cytopla-pram, which seems to help a great deal. In so much as I don't, I don't just

fall off a cliff. Well, this last week or so, I seem to have fallen off a cliff. You know, the

last time this happened, I had run out of my anti-depressant, and I wasn't taking it for a few

weeks, and then suddenly I found myself feeling just terrible. This went on for a couple weeks,

and I finally said to Martha, you know, I'm feeling real lowly. She said, have you been taking your

medication? And I said, well, I ran out a few weeks ago, and she said, well, have you considered

that maybe it's that? And surprisingly, I hadn't. But I was feeling just terrible. Well, once I got

back on the medication, you know, it took a few days or a week or so, but that generally leveled

out. Well, I've been very careful not to let my medication run out since then, and I haven't,

and I've been taking it regularly. And yet, this past week, just off a cliff. Now, I don't know

how depression manifests itself with other people or with you. But for me, it comes on almost like,

it's almost like a physical pain. It's different than physical pain, but it, but, but it's the,

that's the closest analogy I can think of. It's like living in pain. It's just that it's brain pain.

It's the pain that's going, ah, you stupid piece of shit. You're horrible, you know, and that's

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