"During the summer of 2000 I experienced the horrors of a nervous breakdown. As glamorous and poetic as that may seem to some... I assure you it was neither of those things. The only way I can truly describe the experience was like drowning in a sea of molasses from which I could see out and into which noone could see. I remember suddenly not feeling well one day and then the next some inner darkness rising to devour me from the inside. It happened too quickly.
About a month and a half later, when I came to, I can't begin to describe the despair I felt
to see my life turned upside down. For the next
year or so I tried to pull myself together enough to have a job and responsibilities when I finally became a retail manager
(for the first time in my life) and soon found out why that particular choice of career has such a high turnover rate. The treatment
I endured embittered me toward all of mankind, an insignificant creature I wished to see exterminated, and that was about the time
I rediscovered the work of Howard Phillips Lovecraft.
And the rest is history."
~ Jason Wallach / The Unquiet Void