Does the Black Dog Sit with You?
When depression is your companion

Does the black dog sit with you? But you don’t know why she casts a shadow to block out the stars? People will say, “send her away,” as though you can ask her to leave your side when she was stitched into your lining, you know not when or by whom. She remains, even as you undress and slip a new costume over your flesh or rest in a different place. And to those who don’t know her ways you may look like someone who just sits for the sake of sitting. You wish they could see her next to you, gulping down the universe as you wait for her hunger to ease.
