My Experience With Depression (AKA The Insidious Little Beast)

[lady_fox]

Most, if not all of the descriptions I see of someone's experience with depression are major depression... Where they lose functionality, they contemplate suicide, their lives tailspin.

This has not been my experience.

I suffer from depression. There's no doubt of that. Yet mine is low grade. Insidious. Sneaky. Subtle.

My brand of depression is called

Comments

[naamah_darling]

You're right. This isn't a very talked-about variety of depression. Thank you for this.

This sounds very much like where I am now, except for me it represents an improvement over the severe depression. I wish I could push it the rest of the way off. Ugh.

Glad you caught what was going on.

[lady_fox]

Thank you. :-)

[sargon999]

Part of living with it is moments like that. Learning to recognize it, because depression is a shapechanger. If it can't get you one way, it will turn into something else and come at you another way.

[lady_fox]

Absolutely!!!