Saturday, March 27, 2010

That Groggy Feeling When You First Wake Up?

Multiply it by about ten, add muscle aches and the belief you'll never feel better, and you have the very beginning of understanding clinical depression. The depression bipolar sufferers experience is very similar.

Just a quick description.

3 comments:

  1. That's a great description, Joe. I'll never understand it fully, but you've given me something I HAVE felt to compare it to.

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  2. That sounds like my first full day home from the hospital after my son was born. Between the physical recovery from the C-section, fluctuating hormones, several hours of sleep deprivation, and a new baby, I was an emotional wreck.

    But that was only for a matter of days. I can't imagine trying to live with that for weeks, months, or years on end. Even without the pain. I have a great deal of sympathy for people with clinical depression and bipolar disorder. As long as that is the cause of their bitchiness and not simply because they are an a**.

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  3. Thanks, guys.

    But you should know me by now, Jaleh. I'm just an a**.

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