This life-long pursuit of secrecy, however, come to an end. The beginning of the end for her secret was her discovery at the end of a major manic episode, half naked, behind bushes of a Glendale, California residence. It was big news to find Christopher Reeve's Lois Lane disoriented, disheveled and shrouded in shame. Now, we learned with Barbara Walters of Margot's painful journey with depression. Depression does not always come with manic episodes nor is it always revealed as dramatically as was Margot Kidder's.
Some depression invades a typical everyday life from out of the blue.
It may creep in unexpectedly after a loss. Some kinds of depression can be passed on via unwelcome genes. Biochemical changes or deficiencies can pull shut life's drapes blocking all sunshine from entry. Sometimes depression can hover like a shadow over an entire lifetime. Low grade depression can keep us just enough in the dark that the gladness of light always seems foreign but never quite dark enough to force a crisis that would require us to get help.