Those of us who live in one day at a time recovery know that we can have feelings of melancholy. These are not feelings of depression or suicidal thinking and they don’t necessarily mean we are unhappy. This happens to us when we are in deep thought and for no apparent reason we are sad. More often than not it happens when writing poetry. And often there is a go to phrase that will that reveals to us that we are not unhappy. Thus the words being reasonably happy. In other words, we’re ok. This is an inside view of the minds of many people living with, or recovering from mental health disorders and addiction. As the story goes, we need turn it into art, or at least into a conversation that others will understand. We need share this melancholy with others. To give and to get we need reach out. We are not alone.
