Please know and understand when dealing with someone who is depressed:
1. It’s not always easy to understand why the things are the way they are.
2. Our depression doesn’t always have a specific trigger. It just happens.
3. Sometimes there is no emotion.
4. Sometimes there is too much emotion and it often isn’t clear either and I am trying to understand myself better. Even though I fail a lot at that.
5. Our depression makes us feel a variety of confusing things.
6. We are trying! No one wants to be depressed.
7. We can’t just snap out of it!
8. We don’t wanna hurt you because of what we are going through. But we will eventually hurt you and we are sorry.
9. We feel like a burden.
10. We need validation. So we can open up and relax a bit.
11. We are not expecting you to fix us!
12. We appreciate your help and efforts.
13. It’s not your fault!!