I wish I had spoken up in class yesterday – to reassure everyone that depression, indeed, doesn't make sense. But I couldn't find the words and I was afraid. I don't usually talk about my problems, having been misunderstood and taken advantage of in the past. And I was distressed to find that my fears are not entirely unfounded.
Yesterday in one of my classes… I became painfully aware that a lot of people – a LOT of people – still don't understand depression. I can understand, since those with depression often don't understand it themselves. But it was disheartening to realize so many people don't get how deceiving and complicated the mind can be. (Even outside of mental illness, I might add.) Depression is not as simple as getting hung up on a reality. It's often accompanied by unrealistic expectations, disappointments, and impressions, including that nobody cares – and yet rejecting help out of fear and who knows what else. I'll only speak for myself and for me, it's a complete sense of hopelessness that can be triggered, unforeseen, by something almost insignificant. –And snowballs past the point of reason.
I wish I had spoken up in class yesterday – to reassure everyone that depression, indeed, doesn't make sense. But I couldn't find the words and I was afraid. I don't usually talk about my problems, having been misunderstood and taken advantage of in the past. And I was distressed to find that my fears are not entirely unfounded.
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