An essay from award-winning TV journalist Terry Irving about working through depression. Terry spent his life fighting depression and wanted to write some practical points about dealing with this destructive ailment.
I moved to Washington DC in 1973 to kick around for a few weeks until I decided on a real career. I ended up riding a classic BMW R50/2 for ABC News during Watergate. Carrying that news film was the beginning of a 40-year career that has included producing Emmy Award-winning television news, writing everything from magazine articles to standup comedy and developing many of the earliest forms of online media.
After producing stories in Beirut, Hong Kong, El Salvador, and all 50 states, I still live right outside Washington, DC because my wife and my dog simply refuse to live anywhere else.
I have just finished a memoir of those early years and am in search of an agent.