[Content note: This story contains discussion of suicide.]
Jon Nelson’s depression was poison. “I had poison in every single bit of my body. It literally ran throughout every cell in my body. My blood carried the poison, and it crushed everything in me.”
Melancholia, one of depression’s early names, comes from the ancient Greek word for “black bile,” a diseased liquid believed to flood a body. It was once thought that bloodletting and other ways to let the corrupting fluids out could ease people’s minds.
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