Why depression is confusing.

Things you might relate to if you have depression and anxiety.

1. Just leave me the HECK alone and stop treating me like a child!! Well, at least until I am feeling down and then I probably am going to need your immediate attention for an extended period of time. I also wouldn't mind if you would tuck me in and treat me like a parent would their sick baby.

2. I promise I will not flake on you if the thing you want from me is in the next five minutes.

3. I just had the most life altering idea! Now I am going to take a nap and hope I forget it so that I can once again be content with the life I can mostly manage.

4. You can tell me that you are sorry I have depression, but it might help me more if you laughed with me at the ridiculousness of this horrific situation. The trick is to pretend we're all on a sit-com.

How fortuitous.

Sweet. China is on my side.