Depression is also getting up & going to work everyday, keeping up with yourself, laughing, putting on makeup, going out with your friends. Functional depression is also very real.
It’s wild how most audiologists don’t know sign language & still push deaf people to lip read in 2024. They work with deaf and HoH people often, yet somehow believe knowing the most crucial form of communication isn’t essential for their job.
people don't understand how draining it can be to try to explain what's happening inside your head when you're struggling to understand it yourself. there are times when you just unintentionally feel sad and start to feel alone
has anyone else ever gotten to the point where you realize you’ve been so passively suicidal your entire life that you never planned your future and now it’s time to act on your future and you have no fucking idea what to do
Introverts shut down when they're going through shit. They want no sympathy. No advice. No "fixing". All they want is silence & solitude. They know how to pull themselves out. Just leave them alone for a while.