Irecently heard a story about someone who calmly called a friend and said she was digging a hole in the backyard. She planned to lie down and die in it. It was a psychotic break. But I can relate.

When I was in my 20s, studying in Germany, I was in a bad place – crying in class for no reason, isolating.

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How sitting ‘in the hole’ helped me cope with depression | Psyche Stories of Change

A metaphor for depression became a catalyst, and I started to reinvent my approach to suffering