My Life With Depression and Anxiety

I'm not a smart man. For years people told me I was. I was a "gifted child." A teacher once told me I walked around with a cocky grin like I was ahead of everyone else. How wrong she was. When I look back on my life I don't necessarily have regrets, just a sense of awe and wonder that I have survived this long being as stupid as I am. I once popped my jeep out of four wheel drive during a snow storm because the roads seemed ok and I was trying to save on gas. Of couse on the next turn I hit some ice. The jeep spun, hit a ditch, flipped up a hill, and then rolled down said hill. I wasn't even bruised. In fact the only injury during the accident was to my passenger, who got some bruises when I unbuckled my seat belt and fell on him.(Sorry Brandon). I suppose there is something to be said for the engineering of old jeeps there somewhere. But that was just the time I gambled and lost. There were so many other close calls. Not to mention falling off ladders, being ...