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madina's avatar

honestly, i'm not the person who leaves comments on substack posts. but reading this makes me wanna cry. i'm in that kind of phase myself and it just keeps going and going and going. these couple days, every day starts the same way, feels the same way and ends the same way. but by reading this, it makes me realise that i'm not completely alone with my thoughts. i do not know you, but god I love for writing this and deciding to publish this. I love God for making me read this post in this exact moment. thank you so much and I hope you'll continue expressing, feeling and sharing this love of yours. the world gets a little bit lighter when people share their own thoughts and emotions, even if they're miles away. thank you so much jia

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H. R. Vale's avatar

I usually don't comment. I am a mental health therapist and I felt deeply inspired by this post. Being depressed is an extremely isolating experience and I would like you to know that so many people are feeling what you eloquently wrote.

Despite your darkest moments, you STILL went to therapy, you STILL went to the dining hall, you STILL washed your hair. You only had four meals, but that's better than three. You STILL did the bare minimum, even if it felt impossible. That is everything. Even when you felt nothing and everything, you still did those things because you needed to. Whatever that reason may be, hold onto that.

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