"Depression is humiliating. It turns intelligent, kind people into zombies who can’t wash a dish or change their socks. It affects the ability to think clearly, to feel anything, to ascribe value to your children, your lifelong passions, your relative good fortune. It scoops out your normal healthy ability to cope with bad days and bad news, and replaces it with an unrecognizable sludge that finds no pleasure, no delight, no point in anything outside of bed. You alienate your friends because you can’t comport yourself socially, you risk your job because you can’t concentrate, you live in moderate squalor because you have no energy to stand up, let alone take out the garbage. You become pathetic and you know it. And you have no capacity to stop the downward plunge. You have no perspective, no emotional reserves, no faith that it will get better. So you feel guilty and ashamed of your inability to deal with life like a regular human, which exacerbates the depression and the isolation. If you’ve never been depressed, thank your lucky stars and back off the folks who take a pill so they can make eye contact with the grocery store cashier. No one on earth would choose the nightmare of depression over an averagely turbulent normal life.
It’s not an incapacity to cope with day to day living in the modern world. It’s an incapacity to function. At all. If you and your loved ones have been spared, every blessing to you. If depression has taken root in you or your loved ones, every blessing to you, too. No one chooses it. No one deserves it. It runs in families, it ruins families. You cannot imagine what it takes to feign normalcy, to show up to work, to make a dentist appointment, to pay bills, to walk your dog, to return library books on time, to keep enough toilet paper on hand, when you are exerting most of your capacity on trying not to kill yourself. Depression is real. Just because you’ve never had it doesn’t make it imaginary. Compassion is also real. And a depressed person may cling desperately to it until they are out of the woods and they may remember your compassion for the rest of their lives as a force greater than their depression. Have a heart. Judge not lest ye be judged."

— (via loobeeinthesky)

(Source: sherunsfromdarkness)

  1. fineontheoutsidedyingontheinside reblogged this from patronu-s
  2. amurr-ca reblogged this from lindseydisney
  3. siempreadieta reblogged this from just-wannabe-happy
  4. lindseydisney reblogged this from gonnaslapabitch
  5. k4rmap0lic3 reblogged this from alannadon
  6. just-wannabe-happy reblogged this from stupid-reject
  7. discoreject reblogged this from crimsonqueen8
  8. crimsonqueen8 reblogged this from talesofawholockedmockingjay
  9. stupid-reject reblogged this from beyondthebrokensmiles
  10. beyondthebrokensmiles reblogged this from notjustrunnershigh
  11. talesofawholockedmockingjay reblogged this from wholocks-army
  12. imochayoualatte reblogged this from whiteshadows
  13. patronu-s reblogged this from we-reidentical
  14. willmorris reblogged this from kshandra
  15. derpybreakfast reblogged this from theysayiamunsound
  16. opalinejen reblogged this from travelingwind
  17. meikosuna reblogged this from infinitenightskies and added:
    This made me not to ever feel depressed now…I’ve been depressed for 6 months… and this made me feel better…
  18. travelingwind reblogged this from paulinectarine
  19. genevive0429 reblogged this from pringles-and-picasso
  20. cucumber-sandwich reblogged this from sassygayshockblanket
  21. pennyjoann reblogged this from lionheartxo
  22. britwave reblogged this from punkrockmuffinatrix
  23. whiteshadows reblogged this from myshootingstar
  24. pringles-and-picasso reblogged this from vondell-swain
  25. ijlh reblogged this from lelandjanuska
  26. skorpychan reblogged this from kendermouse
  27. myshootingstar reblogged this from animalpleasures
  28. ginamak reblogged this from ivydoor
  29. kendermouse reblogged this from kshandra
  30. lajellybean reblogged this from enigmaticagentalice
  31. red-wolf-yukai reblogged this from slubberdegullion-blues
  32. meghanbee reblogged this from eebnahgem
  33. fuzzychaichi reblogged this from bananashitcrazy
  34. taimeresque reblogged this from miidori3