Those of you who know me, know I suffer from clinical depression from time to time. Those of you who don't know me, now know that.
The worst part about having a disease that causes a chemical imbalance in your brain that inhibits your ability to feel anything other than soul-crushing sadness is that a lot of people think you can 'just snap out of it'. When I'm not suffering an attack of depression, I do my best to just not bring up the subject. When I am, I do my best to not punch these people in the face.
Emotions follow a natural osculating pattern, sometimes you're up and sometimes you're down, when people tell you to 'get over it', they're assuming you're just in one of your down phases. Depression is not a down phase followed by an up one, it is the inability to go into an up phase. Exactly what depression feels like (and it is not the same as being sad) to someone who's never had it is a bit like trying to explain what snozzberries taste like.
And then Allie at Hyperbole and a Half wrote this beautiful post: Adventures in Depression
That was an amazingly conceived way of portraying that. *searches for like button*.....*gives up and goes back to facebook*
ReplyDelete-william
as someone who could have been punched in the face(o_O)
ReplyDeletei think i can give myself the right to ask;
"soul-crushing sadness!!,Why!!?"
PS.
1)don't temme that u dont wanna talk about it because u did talked about it. (we r on ur blog)(fact!!)
2)don't ask who i am, just to maintain the illusion.(quoted from ur snappy answers!!)
:P