What It Feels Like To Fight Your Own Brain
“To acknowledge that there may be something wrong, or different, with your brain, you put a lot on the line. You wonder how people will see you, if they’ll be scared of you, if your job is in danger, or your family ashamed.
“But we need to hear the stories, as morose as they are, because when we silo these experiences, we increase the chances that someone else with depression will think there really is something damaged inside of them. And following that feeling of being damaged, the lesser the chances are that they’ll get up and visit that emergency clinic when they just can’t listen to the loop anymore. Because when you think it’s only you, listening to the loop become easier than getting help, particularly when you think it’s wrong, or weak, to get help, or when you think yourself undeserving.”
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