Depression is…..
- Uncontrollable tears – not sobbing, just tears – whenever you’re alone and sometimes when you’re not.
- Oversensitivity to rejection, real or imagined
o Guilt about feeling rejected
§ Frustration at yourself for feeling guilty about feeling rejected
- Complete lack of appetite
o Nausea when you don’t eat
o Nausea when you do eat
- Physical exhaustion from anything that expends either mental or physical energy
- Attempting to be cheerful when other people are around
o Physical and mental exhaustion at trying to be cheerful
o Resentment that other people won’t understand how hard you’re trying to be cheerful
§ Guilt over feeling resentful
- Uncontrollable annoyance at other people’s cheerfulness or good fortune
o Guilt over feeling annoyed
§ Frustration with yourself for feeling guilty about being annoyed
- Seesawing between insomnia and sleeping fourteen hours per day
- Uncontrollable annoyance or anger over things that are minor or even funny when you’re normal
- The desire to do nothing but stare at the wall, or maybe the TV, for hours
o Guilt that you’re not spending your time being more productive
§ Frustration that even when you try to be productive, things don’t happen the way you want them to
o Flitting from activity to activity trying to find something that will distract you for more than five minutes
2 comments:
I'm sorry to hear that you're feeling like this. If you want to come round for tea and cake sometime (cheeriness not required), let me know.
The above commenter is me (sorry, it's probably insufficiently obvious from the username).
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