Antea

“What do you have to be stressed about?” the normies might have said, if I ever talked about these things with normal people. “You have a family, a house, a car, a good job. Just deal with it!” As if I could simply do that. As if I chose this. As if I looked at the options available to me and they were clearly labeled “Perseverance” and “Freaking the Fuck Out All the Time” and calmly said, “Mmm, yes, I select option B.”
― John Moe, The Hilarious World of Depression

“Depression does its damage and then it hides, covering its tracks, making you think that it is not an illness, that you’re just bad and weird.”
― John Moe, The Hilarious World of Depression

“there is nothing more intoxicating for a depressed person with an alcoholic parent in his past than being told you are loved and wanted.”
― John Moe, The Hilarious World of Depression

“Only by being useful or talented, and receiving external recognition, would I achieve personhood. I couldn’t imagine a world where I was a worthwhile person by dint of mere existence; I felt like I needed to earn it and prove it every day. Don’t worry, this feeling went away after only several decades.”
― John Moe, The Hilarious World of Depression