Tag: black dog

  • Jesse…

    I was hoping that when I woke up this morning he would be gone, but the moment I opened my eyes, I sensed he was still around. All my life, I have been subjected to dark, depressive moods to such an extent they seemed normal. Something that happened on a regular basis to me and…

  • Jesse… part three

    Jesse turned up again today. I had been feeling predictably edgy for some days now, but hadn’t given him a thought. My routine was all to hell and my workload suffering because of it. I was forgetting what I was doing, right in the middle of doing it! The impending radiotherapy was starting to haunt…

  • Jesse (part two)

    Jesse was waiting for me when I came down stairs this morning, and for probably the first time ever, I did not resent his arrival. Those sorrowful eyes echoed my own and I did not feel so very alone any more. I used to resent his arrival, knowing the black mood that threatened to descend…