An excerpt from Kathy Cronkite's On The Edge of Darkness. Kathy Cronkite continues to battle the stigma associated with Depression and speaks on the topic. You can read her bio with the American Program Bureau here. This passage is a quote from William Stryon, author of Darkness Visible, struggled with Depression his whole life and I think the excerpt below illustrates my own feelings on Depression and overcoming the shame and stigma associated with it. It would lesson my sense of a person's integrity if I learened that he or she had suffered from depression and had hidden it. I honor or respect whatever presonal reasons they had for that, but I would feel far more respect for people who fully face up to the fact that they have had an illness and tell the world. I think its ...