Sorry I Didn’t Text You Back, I Was Depressed and in a State of Functional Freeze
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Sorry I Didn’t Text You Back, I Was Depressed and in a State of Functional Freeze
I was always aware that I was flying in the face of polite convention in doing this, and that the times when we fall out of everyday life remain taboo. We’re not raised to recognise wintering, or to acknowledge its inevitability. Instead, we tend to see it as a humiliation, something that should be hidden from view lest we shock the world too
... See more“I now think of it as mental influenza,” she says. “I don’t power on through, I don’t put up a facade, and I don’t keep it in. I take a couple of days off and look after myself until I’m well again. I go to the sea, make sure I’m getting some good nutrition, cancel all my appointments, and rest until I’m better. I know what to do.”