An older post of mine that I think highlights the lie that we can just get over depression by pulling our socks up.
My ex partner who was narcissistic was a fan of the Pink Floyd song “I have become comfortably numb.” That should have been a red flag for some of the emotional invalidation abuse that went down in the course of our relationship where I was a demon for actually feeling my feelings. He seemed to think that emotions were a major inconvenience to just ‘getting on with life’. I have been thinking about this since my beautiful friend Summer wrote a blog in response to helping a friend who is feeling extremely suicidal. The post is entitled “if depression were a choice” and was written in response to someone saying that she or he should just choose not to be depressed and get over it.
Summer called for other bloggers to share their own take on why they know through harsh experience that depression is most definitely not a choice…
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Emerging From The Dark Night 