Readers, please enjoy this guest blog post by Terence P Ward, author of the new Empty Cauldrons. I set out to write a book about depression, and what surprised me most is how easy it was to find people with firsthand experience to interview. Knowing from personal experience how difficult it can be to discuss what it's like to live through depression, I dreaded trying to find anyone willing to talk about what it's like. Writing only from my own perspective felt unnatural to me as a journalist, and I wanted to test my understanding by talking with others—those who know depression personally, and professionals trained in addressing it. What I found was a pool of generous souls, each