Grow Grit & Virtue (In Pursuit of God)

Grow Grit & Virtue (In Pursuit of God)

Depression Lies. Hope is the Bridge Back When You Forget Who You Are

Thoughts on Hope and Being a Child of God

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Thad Cardine
Jul 23, 2025
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The worst part of depression isn’t always the sadness. It’s the forgetting. Not the forgetfulness of lost keys or missed appointments, but the soul-deep kind of forgetting. The kind that dissolves identity into a gray fog where meaning and memory unravel. You forget that joy ever felt real. You forget what hope tasted like. And, most painfully, you forg…

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