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Essay: "Overcoming Depression"by Michael J. McKinney And overcoming depression is a strong topic for me to write about. Cause more times than one I have overcame some moments of great depression while being locked up in prison. Right now today I have been locked up in prison for 18 and a half years, but the last fifteen years have been spent in the East unit which is Florida State Prison. And the last eleven years and five months have been spent in a one man cell on a locked down close management unit and control unit, and this close management system is to confine inmates separate from the general inmate population for reasons of security. But anyway these close management units are filled with evil and negativity and so much overwhelming corruption that led me to struggle for some years with depression and depression has a big widespread and detrimental impact in this close management unit. And many inmates locked down in these same close management units should be receiving treatment for depression. My name is Michael Jerome McKinney and I’m 36 years old at the moment and while being in this control unit I have had a long history of serious psychiatric problems including major depression around the years of 2001 and 2002. I was struggling really bad with some major depression to the point I have attempted suicide more than once and have been admitted for inpatient mental health treatment more than ten times, and while locked down in a one man cell on June 15 2004, correctional officers sprayed chemical agents into my cell. They emptied two cans of pepper spray and one can of tear gas. And over thirty other times I was sprayed with chemical agents from 2001 up to 2006 and the excessive use of chemical agents caused painful burning in my eyes and skin, and after these incidents I was experiencing psychological trauma and depression and was sent to intensive inpatient mental health unit, and was treated for depression and suicidal ideas. And in 2005 I set my cell on fire three times from depression and I was at the point where I did not want to live anymore. Then someone like the end of July 2005 I went to looking inside myself. I started back working out ever day; I went eating all my food. I went to reading and studying the bible every day. I was reading other good books that were helping me overcome my depression and I’m not feeling so stressed anymore. And I went to praying four times, asking the Lord to help me overcome the depression I was struggling like hell with. And I was feeling so much better. And I was no longer wanting to die anymore. And this was not easy cause I went through a lot to help depression with the help of God.
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