This is not for you...

I am and have been depressed. It's hard to tell for how long when I can only see things through my own perspective, and that's exactly what's been changing, but either way, it's gone on long enough.

Acknowledging this problem is well and good, but a response is required. As I see it, there are three options, none of which are necessarily mutually exclusive: drugs, counseling, and an extraordinary exercise in willpower.

Obviously, the latter is the most difficult, but it's also the most appealing. A big part of my problem is simply a lack of confidence and a lack of structure. So the plan is to create a simple structure that lends itself to simple successes, thus improving both aspects of my life.

More specifically, each morning, I hope to wake up, refresh my sense of the world's beauty with some Walt Whitman, then come here to my computer. I will listen to a song or two that makes me happy, hopeful, and energetic while I write a brief post to this blog regarding my own analysis of my mental state and create a concrete list of objectives for the day. Then I will set about tackling those objectives with as much intensity as possible, until such time as I return home and post again before bed - weighing in on my progress for the day.