Even in darkness, we glow.
In this image of Earth taken by the Artemis II crew, we can see the electric lights of human activity. In the lower right, sunlight illuminates the limb of the planet.
Functional depression is real. You work, joke, take care of your family, and make other people happy every day, yet mentally you’re drowning in your own thoughts and no one knows.
Telling people with severe #depression to exercise because exercise is good for recovery from depression is fine. But clearly people giving out such advice have not experienced severe depression. Severe depression brings with it physical disability and complete lack of muscular strength.
One needs to first walk before one can run. Similarly, exercise is possible only when depressive symptoms reduce a bit.
That said, if you have depression of any level of severity, if you can just move a little, please do try to do that. If not, you're not a failure - if you survived today, that's enough. And then, tomorrow is another day! 🌸💫
Depression doesn’t always look like sadness.
Sometimes it’s:
• Constant brain fog.
• Leaving laundry in the machine for 3 days.
• Not remembering the last time you laughed.
• Saying “I’m fine” and meaning “I’m drowning”.
• Feeling exhausted from doing nothing.
• Crying when no one’s around.
• Wanting connection but isolating anyway.
This is what depression can really look like..