Antea

“Only decades later would it dawn on me that normal people who never deal with depression have a sense of self-worth automatically. Just by being a person on the earth, they feel themselves worthy of respect and love and all that other cool stuff.”
― John Moe, The Hilarious World of Depression

“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

“I didn’t know that depression isn’t a mood. It’s a set of conditions that cause a whole series of thoughts and behaviors to happen over a long period of time, often things that are wildly different from one another.”
― 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