Tumbleweeds of the Mind

I don’t care how many memes and song lyrics tell you otherwise, true depression is far more rare than people like to admit.

If that offends you, good.

Most of the chronically depressed are either protecting their ego to feel significant in their misery, or misusing their brain and body to create a life situation that’s shitty.

A very small percentage actually have something biologically wrong.

Mental health IS important.

We DO need to destigmatize it.

But we don’t need to pathologize it.

What does a depressed person look like? Slumped shoulders, bad posture, turned down face, right?

We all know the look.

But if you tell most people in this state to keep their chin up, open their chest, and put a smile on their face, they get pissed.

“How dare you? I want to stay in my box of misery and any attempt to help me out of it means you don’t care about what I’m going through.” they seem to say.

What’s wrong in your life is always available for you to focus on. And yes, you’ll get brownie points and attention — made to feel important even, by disguising negativity as “vulnerability” or “authenticity”.