Joy Displaced Depression

Stephen D. Edwards
4 min readJul 1, 2021

I became depressed as a young adult. I also began to suffer in addiction around the same time.

After 35 years in darkness and sparse moments of clarity, I found myself free from depression only I couldn’t really tell. I wasn’t expecting it, and I thought my condition was normal. What happened? It was a perfect storm of love and goodness from God.

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Stephen D. Edwards

Stephen D. Edwards began writing in high school but quit as an young adult. he wrote “The Branch and the Vine,” a memoir about his battle over depression.