DEPRESSION LIES
ORIGINALLY POSTED IN 2012 ON focusonsimple.co I'm an emotional person - as in, I feel emotions strongly, exquisitely. It sometimes take a lot of effort to refrain from have my life be completely ruled by what I'm feeling. High school was particularly difficult for me - there were really great moments, but it definitely felt like one long stretch of...well, depression. + for me, depression is being overwhelmed with emotion. Usually it's dark + heavy. When I'm filled up with love + thankfulness, it's...incandescent - light + loveliness. These days, I don't get weighed down in the same way. Every few months or so I'll experience a bout of what can only be described as a dark mental abyss which slowly overtakes every happy memory + replaces them with those that reinforce thoughts + voices…