How arrogant of me to think that they don’t know what they’re talking about?”

“which is that if I can do it, then it must be dumb. If I can do it, it’s not that hard. So everything I ever did that was like a big deal, I’d be like, oh well, I guess it’s not a big deal. I thought that would be a big deal, but it’s not because I could do it. So that means any idiot could do it, so on to the next thing that I think is hard. And

Depression is an illness that happened to you. Maybe it was from the chemicals and inherited genetic traits that appeared in your brain before you were even born. Maybe it was from a trauma that occurred and then festered in your brain. Maybe there were people with power over you who behaved in a way that screwed you up. It wasn’t you. You didn’t c

The saddies attach little or no sense of intrinsic value to their person, so accomplishment automatically feels fraudulent.

Depression can’t be cured by positive life circumstances because depression is not a reaction to circumstances.

A depressed mind is pretty adept at buying into a distorted reality.

Boy, I spin thoughts around in my head a lot, don’t I? Like, a lot. That’s what depression does. The dance floor of your mind is never without a pounding beat, and usually the DJ is playing eight or nine songs at the same time.

I’m a straight white man. The last three words of the previous sentence give me three layers of support in this society. Toss in a college education and my status as married with kids, that’s a few more.

Depression does its damage and then it hides, covering its tracks, making you think that it is not an illness, that you’re just bad and weird.