Can you guys do me a favor? If you have depression, can you quote tweet this with the main emotion you associate with your depression? Because what surprised me most is that depression and sad are not synonyms.
@jakebe Weariness, bitterness, cynicism. It's like the sparkle and shine disappears from the world. Nothing feels worthwhile. Nothing feels meaningful. There is only the terrible calculi, the obligation to figure out how starves last on this miserable grey rock and who will be the one to apologize to the future that we weren't willing to be just and decent and human enough to warrant saving.
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[1.Ch.] How Depression Feels (CW: feelings)
@jakebe Weariness, bitterness, cynicism. It's like the sparkle and shine disappears from the world. Nothing feels worthwhile. Nothing feels meaningful. There is only the terrible calculi, the obligation to figure out how starves last on this miserable grey rock and who will be the one to apologize to the future that we weren't willing to be just and decent and human enough to warrant saving.