There are many words we can use to communicate an insidious miasma that threatens to smother our soul.  Words such as “downcast,”  “brokenhearted,” “troubled,” “miserable,” “despairing,” and “mourning,” among others avoidthe word “Depression”. Throughout history there are a number of stories of people who have struggled and battled through dark times of hopelessness and depression, just as we find ourselves struggling there today.