My Fish Are Dead

[bloodyrosemccoy]

Hyperbole and a Half is back!

It's possible not-depressed people won't get this new post at all, and depressed people may not want to do any reliving, but god DAMN, I have been in that place and felt those not-feelings and let me tell you when I read this post I laughed my ASS off. I have never seen What Depression Is Like communicated so well. Allie is a GENIUS. A depressed, anhedonic genius.

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[westrider.livejournal.com]

I know! While I was reading it, I was thinking "Normal people would probably think this is horrible, but as someone who's been there, it's fucking hilarious!" I can't remember the last time I laughed like that.

I was also really happy just to see that she's back, and doing more or less ok. The way her last few posts went before she dropped off the internet, I was kind of worried about her, so it was really good to see her posting again.

[padparadscha.livejournal.com]

"Normal people would probably think this is horrible, but as someone who's been there, it's fucking hilarious!"

That's pretty much what I thought. I was just about crying with laughter--and not in a sad-funny way, but a funny-because-YES EXACTLY THAT way. Especially at the reassurances after the "I maybe am suicidal" bit and the fucking Positivity Sprinkler.

As an aside, Mom now has the Maybe Everything Isn't Hopeless Bullshit panel as her desktop. Because YES EXACTLY THAT, TOO.

(And yes, it's good to see that she's back. You get attached to these people!)

[wendyzski.livejournal.com]

Now I want to make vial necklaces with a little dried up kernel of corn in them, sell them, and give the profits to an appropriate charity

[sylvidoptera.livejournal.com]

Seriously! It's like she was in my head. I actually was checking FB and saw that maybe 10 minutes after she posted. I was like "HALLELUJAH she's alive!" and then I was like "holy crap she totally knows!"

[daiq.livejournal.com]

"It would be like having a bunch of dead fish, but no one around you will acknowledge that the fish are dead. Instead, they offer to help you look for the fish or try to help you figure out why they disappeared. "

Yes, yes, YES!!!!

I am so glad she is OK, we have the Being a Real Adult comic on the wall of our staffroom at school because it is so all of us!

[http://users.livejournal.com/_wastrel/]

Thank you for having shared that, I've already shared it with several others - people should know about this.

For some reason, as tangential as it may seem in some ways I guess, possibly partly because I'm not doing so well myself, I'm reminded of what a bokononist will say before committing suicide:

"Now I will destroy the whole world."

[padparadscha.livejournal.com]

Aw, man. Sorry you are not feeling so good. But at least you have a way to explain it to people now, huh?

[http://users.livejournal.com/_wastrel/]

Heh, if I could strong-arm the kind of people who need to read it the most into doing so, I would. :> But seeing it spelled out so accurately at least represents some kind of vindication.