In my previous post, I described how my mood had sometimes felt almost totally dark, but with occasional chinks of light breaking through, while at other times it had seemed almost relatively ‘normal’, except that there were chinks of darkness bursting up from somewhere.
This is what depression looks like at times, when I’m in the cave:

At other times, though, it can look like this, when I’m on the surface but the cave is still there:

Excuse the terrible sketches – I just felt that a visual aid was called for.