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Depression is a disease...

Posted: March 9th, 2013, 12:35 pm
by 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.

Re: Depression is a disease...

Posted: March 9th, 2013, 6:02 pm
by 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.

Re: Depression is a disease...

Posted: March 9th, 2013, 7:52 pm
by cyanidebreathmint
You can start small. You could probably even get away with starting via email, if the other stuff is too scary.