Atypical depressives respond positively to good things that happen to them, are able to enjoy simple pleasures like food and sex, and tend to over sleep and over eat, their depression, which is chronic rather than periodic and which usually dates from adolescence, largely shows itself lack of energy and interest, lack of initiative, and a great sensitivity to periodic – particularly romantic – rejection.
anything to feel better. a frontal lobotomy, even.
if they were manic – depressives, they worked during hypomania, the productive precursor to a manic phase which allows a peak of creative energy to flow. but depression is pure dullness, tedium straight up. i do not fear it: i have been there. what a fresh hell i have landed in.
after they had explored all the suns in the universe, and all the planets of all the suns, they realized that there was no other life in the universe, and that they were very happy, because then they knew it was up to them to become all the things they had imagined they would find.
i never felt i had the right to be depressed.
it can be a full-fledged forest fire that destroys almost everything and is controlled by almost nothing.
