Depression is a disease...

[My poor friend me]

...with a frighteningly high mortality rate, and its scariest symptom is that you barely even care.

I need professional help. I know that. But making the effort to seek it out seems about as unattainable at the moment as flapping my arms and flying to Mars.

[My poor friend me]

You can't snap out of depression any more than you can snap out of the flu. It's neurologically impossible. And yet, there's a part of me that insists that's exactly what I need to do, and I feel like a failure at life because I can't.

[cyanidebreathmint]

You can start small. You could probably even get away with starting via email, if the other stuff is too scary.