Oh, Internets

[lea_hazel]

Reading comments on a blog post, there's this one repeat commenter who (quite accidentally) granted me a vast epiphany about why people have such a hard time being around people who are depressed. Never before have I been on the giving end of, "Please just fucking stop, it is mentally exhausting to listen to you tie yourself up in logical and semantic loops just to prove that you are going to be miserable forever. This is why no one likes you."

Then again, it's just as likely that it's my own horrid mood (in part) being projected upon this poor innocent internet commenter.

It's not that I didn't realize that depression makes people hard to be around. I knew it on some level, it's pretty clear. Now I just feel like I have a clearer insight into the process by which depressive thinking wears down not just oneself, but one's friends and acquaintances as well.