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My Life Thus Far
2017-02-01 23:37:03 (UTC)

Every Kind Of Terrible

I have nothing exceptional to say about this day. It was like all other "normal" days. The best I can offer is that I didn't slip back into the depressive abyss I've been trying to claw my way out of. It's exceedingly frustrating that depression comes and goes like a bad case of seasonal flu. It hits you out of nowhere. You might feel faint signs, but you don't know you've got if for sure until the symptoms consume your entire being. In the midst of it, you want to die. You feel every kind of terrible and then some. Then one day you wake up, and it's not quite as bad. And each day gets a little better. Until finally, you can look back on that time with a sense of gratitude you survived and a renewed desire to prevent it from happening again. You practice better self care. More sleep, better food choices, better hygiene. Depression is exactly like physical sickness. Verbatim. Only it's invisible. And more people understand what a cold or the flu feels like than depression.




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