Shoutout to everyone who’s walked through that darkness—who’s felt their world shrink to the point where even getting out of bed felt like a battle. Depression and trauma have a way of making isolation feel like the only option, like being alone is safer because the weight of everything else just feels too heavy. And in that state, it’s easy to feel like you’ve failed, like you let your own life slip away while everyone else kept living.
You’re not a failure, and you’re not a bad person for shutting down when things got unbearable. You did what you needed to survive, and that’s nothing to be ashamed of. The fact that you’re here, even trying to rebuild, is monumental. It takes years—years of unlearning the habits of self-isolation, of trusting again, of finding your voice when you’ve been silenced by your own pain. It’s not easy to come back from that place, and the courage it takes to even try deserves endless respect.
Recovering doesn’t happen overnight, and the rebuilding process is messy, with setbacks and small victories along the way. You’re allowed to take as much time as you need to heal. You’re allowed to start over, to re-enter life on your own terms, and you’re deserving of connection, of friendship, of all the things you thought you lost. There’s no timeline, no expiration on your ability to reconnect. You’re still here, still fighting, and that alone makes you stronger than you know.
Shoutout to every person who’s depression and trauma was so severe that it caused them to self isolate and kill their social life. You aren’t a bad person for recovering and trying to rebuild yourself, it takes years.
Grant Imahara, the longtime host of Discovery Channel’s “Mythbusters,” has died from a brain aneurysm, the network says. He was 49.
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