Depression

from Depression Part Two by Allie Brosh

A lot of authors and artists stereotypically suffer from depression. I don’t know the numbers and can’t be bothered to look up the numbers on this general impression, but fuck the numbers. This isn’t about the numbers. This is about feeling shitty.

As you might have guessed by now, I have been feeling shitty. Allie Brosh of Hyperbole and a Half captured the feeling exactly.��Because Allie does it so well, I won’t even bother trying to explain the feeling for anyone out there who doesn’t already know. Instead, I’ll just point you to her excellent and insightful posts: Adventures in Depression and Depression Part Two.

The important part to convey here is��twofold. First,��I’m in one hell of a funk. I’ve been crying and fighting with Aron at the drop of a hat. Over stupid shit, too. We’ve shelved Lily Quinn for a few days while I figure this out because I’m having a hard time not taking every critique or question as some terrible, duel-worthy personal slight. I’ve been laying on the futon and listening to audiobooks a lot, too, occasionally shouting at the book for using words incorrectly. That’ll show them.

But��second, I’m down but not out. I’m fighting this thing like crazy. I hate feeling like this and there’s shit I want to do, damn it! I’m going to beat this depression��� somehow. Probably with chocolate.