J. R. DePriest :verified_trans: :donor: :Moopsy: :EA DATA. SF:<p>So, I wrote this as the opening part of a short story, but I believe it may resonate with folks who have had to deal with depression.</p><blockquote><p>"Everybody gets sad," they say, "but most people are never depressed."<br>True depression is not something you can understand if you haven't experienced it. It's not just an emotion; it's your whole body. There is a <strong>heaviness</strong> to the world around you. Ask a depression sufferer about the <strong>weight</strong> of being of being conscious, of breathing, walking, eating, going to the bathroom, of thinking about all of it. Ask them about the inertia. You've sat down, now try to get up. You've started walking, now try to turn back. You've started crying, now try to stop. Ask them about the isolation brought by the film that sits between them and the rest of the world, about the bubble they live in where color drains, sound dampens, touch never quite reaches. Ask them how their food tastes. Ask them what they dream about at night. Ask them the hardest question of all: "why are you depressed?"<br>"If I knew that, I wouldn't be depressed."</p></blockquote><p><a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/Writer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Writer</span></a> <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/Writing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Writing</span></a> <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/WritersOfMastodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WritersOfMastodon</span></a> <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/Depression" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Depression</span></a></p>