What Depression Can Do - 1: Disappearing
Posted by JohnD
I can't remember when this started happening. I'm walking about in everyday life reacting to nothing, feeling nothing, and it's happening now when I'm on the job, running a meeting with 20 people around a table. This is not the self-control I developed as a kid, the bottling up of intense feeling out of a refusal to show it to anyone directly, unfiltered. No, this is empty shell time. Things I felt so intensely about yesterday are like nothing to me now. What was that thing I was so hoping to do, or that I dreaded? I can't even remember. I'm floating in a gray cloud, nothing clear, nothing vivid. I'm not even worried about not knowing where I am or which way is up. It doesn't matter.
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