My name is David B. Hoffman.
I’m a photographer and writer. I grew up in Washington state, but moved to the Midwest for fifteen years at the age of twenty. I’ve since moved back to a beautiful part Washington across the Puget Sound from Seattle. I’m an avid hiker and now that things are getting back to “normal” in my life I intend on getting back into snow skiing, and wake boarding as well. We kind of have it all here in Washington.
Getoutofdepression.com is a labor of love and the culmination of many years spent contemplating and researching my own escape from depression. It’s always been my desire to help others, but for many years I didn’t know exactly what I could offer. We can only offer what we have stored up in our life experience so I’m offering you my experience with depression, and my experience finding my way from zero productivity to living a happy productive life again.
I’ve put many hours into building this site. They would all be worth it if my story were to help just one person find their way. But my goal is much bigger than just one person. It’s my hope that this information would help thousands throughout the world.
It’s not easy sharing my failures. I’m sure that some will not understand, and that’s okay. But those that do make this all worth it.
The photographs you see on the site are all my work. Occasionally I’ll post images I’ve taken with my IPhone, but for the most part you’ll see work I’ve taken with my dslr. If you like one of the images and would like a print or to license the image, please let me know. You’ll find a form on the contact page.
Getoutofdepression.com (Poetic Pachyderm LLC) is currently my full-time job. It’s my starting place as I move toward writing some books and following up on some other business ideas I’ve had. I hope you’ll keep up on my journey.
-David
“It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat.”
~ Theodore Roosevelt