Interview with a Vampire

Today I was very lucky to get someone to sit with me to talk about clinical depression.  Anything he shares with us in the interview are things he (and his "victims") believe to be true.

And now lets get started:

Interview with a Vampire  --- Part 1

Good evening, I am so glad that you agreed to this little interview.

So glad I can be here.

Can you share with my readers a little about yourself?

Sure.  Most people don't know that I really exsist.  But I do.  Those that know me know me by several names: bipolar, manic depression, or clinical depression.  I am the illness that befalls millions of people.

But you said you were a Vampire.

Oh, but I am.  I do my very best to suck the life out of the people I "chose" to make sick.  I am on them everyday 24-7-365.  It's a pretty steady gig.

So how do you go about "sucking the life" out of these people?

Well first let me tell you that I am different from the "blues" or just plain old depression.

How so?

Well the blues is something a lot of people get.  It's a lot like plain old depression.  That is what I will call situational depression.  It happens to people that have just experienced a loss of some sort usually.  Like someone dies, a pet dies, you lose your job, you are having money problems things like that.  When the situation passes or gets better the depression will lift.

And you aren't that kind of depression?  What kind are you?

I am clinical depression.  I am the depression that won't go away.  I am the one that messes up the chemical blance in your brain.  I am more of a physical depression, not a situational one.

Ok, I think I am beginning to understand what you are saying.  Can we now talk about how you effect people?  How you treat them?

HA HA.....I treat them really good.  First I make them depressed.  Then I start working my way into their brain, their life and some people say I go right for the soul as well.

You sound very proud of what you do.

I am.  No one does it better than me.  I can make people do all sorts of things that they normally wouldn't do, or for that matter would ever think of doing.

I don't understand.

Of course you don't.  If you and others understand there would be no need for this interview would there?

Let me try to explain in terms that you and your readers might understand.  Depression can strike anyone.  Any age, social status, wealth, race anyone will suit my purposes just fine.

First off I get people so they can't work.  They can't get out bed, cry for no reason, can't concentrate, can't do much of anything but lay in bed and cry.

Sometimes I will get them to isulate themselves more and more.  They will lose some -- if not all -- friends, family members will go by the way side also.

Why is this?  Why do people leave?

Depressed people are well depressing.  Who wants to hang around a cry baby?  Someone that "can't" meet you for lunch?  And most "normal" people don't understand true clinical depression.  They think it is something that doesn't really exsist.  It's just the blues and that you should just "shake it off",  or "get over it".

And depressed people can't just get over it?

Right.  And that makes my work easier.  I keep people in bed and crying as long as I can.  They will usually go to a doctor and get medicine and it will work great for some of them.

But not everyone?

Right. Some will never be able to get back to anything close to "normal".  The meds don't work for them, or will work for awhile and then stop working and something new will have to be tried.

I love it.  These people I can slowly -- but surely -- suck the life out of.  I get people to wear the same clothes for days, up to a month or longer if I do my job really well.  And they will stop bathing.  Why? Too much effort.  And they just don't feel like it.

And eating!  This is great.  Most of the meds will make them gain weight.  And some will cause cravings for fatting foods.  My people will also find cooking a meal hard if not impossible.  So they will eat junk food, order pizza, or go thru fast food drive thrus.

Wouldn't it be easier to cook that go out for fast food?

Heck no.  Cooking requires more effort than I will let my people have.  They would have to go grocery shopping, and then think about what they want to eat, get up off that really comfy couch and go fix the food.  Easier to get in car and go thru a drive thru.  And this helps me to help them to keep packing on the weight which in turn makes them feel worse.  Makes me feel great though.

This is a lot to take in.  I'm not sure if my readers can "get" depression just yet.

Give them time to digest what I have said.  Then come back and I'll give you another interview.  Maybe by then your readers will start to believe more of what I have to say.

Well thank you so much for sitting down with me for this interview.  I know that we have barely scratched the surface of what you do with your "victims" (as you call them.)

So that's part 1 of this interview.  More to come.  Hopefully the "vampire" will share more of his world with us soon.

Kathy