Depressed person: “I just couldn’t do it.”
Non-depressed person: “Why not?”
Depressed person: “You know how you have a ‘survival instinct’ – that vague internal force that just stops you from knowingly hurting yourself?”
Non-depressed person: “Yeah.”
Depressed person: “It’s like I have that, only it’s all wonky. When I want to do something that’s good for myself, or that I need to do, it just stops me.”
Me, trying to describe what it’s like to have depression, and why I can’t just do the things I need to do sometimes. (via archers-bones)
So accurate it hurts
(via kiriamaya)
Holding the Bowl 