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Musical, attentive, loyal, listener, thoughtful, pretty goofy, animal lover, 420 friendly, straight up. Love a good joke and a good laugh, don't take myself too seriously.
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like a cold clears up after, but if issues still persist, then its not easy to deal with of course.
I hope youre still strumming the guitar
It just don't work that way. The mental tools that normal people have to "snap out of it" is missing in depressed people. We do not have those mental tools to "just be happy". Depression is a disease of the mind and like any other disease, it has its symptoms.
Treatment unfortunately is not a exact science. Many times when a doctor gives you pills, they are not 100% sure if they will be effective or not. Sometimes it takes trying several different pills before finding the right one, and what works for one may not work for another.
These days I think of it as a black cloud and know it will blow over. This now means the black cloud does not appear so often now. I feel lucky in that.
People who say these off hand comments have never been down that dark road, and don't know what else to say..so they try minimize what your going thru....thats what I think..they need to be educated