Jim Harris

Yeah, yeah, it was a milestone.

Yeah, yeah, it was a milestone.

Yeah, yeah, it was a milestone.

nerve recovery from a severe accident like mine is thought to more or less wrap up after about 24 months. And so by about two years out, whatever disability someone has is probably what they're going to be left with for life. And so that was a milestone that I had in my head. And right as that two-year anniversary hit, I was laid off from my job, and the 2016 election had just happened.

nerve recovery from a severe accident like mine is thought to more or less wrap up after about 24 months. And so by about two years out, whatever disability someone has is probably what they're going to be left with for life. And so that was a milestone that I had in my head. And right as that two-year anniversary hit, I was laid off from my job, and the 2016 election had just happened.

nerve recovery from a severe accident like mine is thought to more or less wrap up after about 24 months. And so by about two years out, whatever disability someone has is probably what they're going to be left with for life. And so that was a milestone that I had in my head. And right as that two-year anniversary hit, I was laid off from my job, and the 2016 election had just happened.

I broke up with someone that I'd been dating, and a pet died, and it just felt like there was all this kind of like series of...

I broke up with someone that I'd been dating, and a pet died, and it just felt like there was all this kind of like series of...

I broke up with someone that I'd been dating, and a pet died, and it just felt like there was all this kind of like series of...

tragedies that any one of would have been hard and then in aggregate was really destabilizing and part of that I ended up in this depressive state where it felt like compared to the life that I had led before my accident pre-injury that nothing was ever going to be that good again that I had like hit some sort of a high water mark and that things were never going to be that happy that joyful that connected that successful ever again

tragedies that any one of would have been hard and then in aggregate was really destabilizing and part of that I ended up in this depressive state where it felt like compared to the life that I had led before my accident pre-injury that nothing was ever going to be that good again that I had like hit some sort of a high water mark and that things were never going to be that happy that joyful that connected that successful ever again

tragedies that any one of would have been hard and then in aggregate was really destabilizing and part of that I ended up in this depressive state where it felt like compared to the life that I had led before my accident pre-injury that nothing was ever going to be that good again that I had like hit some sort of a high water mark and that things were never going to be that happy that joyful that connected that successful ever again

And that felt pretty despondent. Like, wait, what is the point of any of this if it's just a downhill slide towards the grave from here?

And that felt pretty despondent. Like, wait, what is the point of any of this if it's just a downhill slide towards the grave from here?

And that felt pretty despondent. Like, wait, what is the point of any of this if it's just a downhill slide towards the grave from here?

Yes, I think so.

Yes, I think so.

Yes, I think so.

It's hard to answer what a definitive end point for that was, but it felt like a long, slow crawl back out of a hole. In some ways, I still face some of those challenges, though I don't think I'm depressed right now. But I think there was a real reckoning with some of my worldviews and values where some of the ways that I understood myself felt like I hit a dead end.

It's hard to answer what a definitive end point for that was, but it felt like a long, slow crawl back out of a hole. In some ways, I still face some of those challenges, though I don't think I'm depressed right now. But I think there was a real reckoning with some of my worldviews and values where some of the ways that I understood myself felt like I hit a dead end.