The Priceless Gift:
Navigating Clinical Depression and Finding Hope

“My name is Rumi Shivaz. This book chronicles a period of my life I often refer to as my journey through hell and back. It is the story of my encounter with clinical depression, an experience so profound and harrowing that it reshaped my understanding of myself, of suffering and, ultimately, of life itself. For almost four years, I navigated the suffocating darkness of an illness that strips away your identity, your capabilities and sometimes your will to live.” It is not a journey I would wish upon anyone. Yet, paradoxically, it is an experience that has yielded insights and growth I now consider invaluable – what I have come to call a “priceless gift”.”