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The idea of Hermitage grows and grows and grows. I do not understand people, why must I live among them, and pretend to be one of them?

I am not of these people.

I am of the woods, of the trees.

I am the breaking of the waves, I am the darkness of the deep.

I am the ice atop the peak, I am the granite below.

I cannot relate to you. I am not you. I am the sea.

I feel like I'm just.... Not supposed to have relationships in my life. But just be a temporary light in people's lives that they walk away from when they're bored.

“we met on a website for lonely super heroes who want friendships with normal guys” i

A commonly overlooked symptom of depression is anhedonia, the inability to feel joy or pleasure. The reason that it's easy to overlook is that it's easier to miss the absence of something that's not around all the time than it is to miss a symptom that causes active distress, such as feeling tired and miserable all the time.

Anhedonia is good at being a persistent undercurrent to your life. My aunt, who has major depressive disorder, related to me that she figured out that something was wrong when she looked at the daffodils she had planted blooming, and couldn't recognize the emotion that she felt when she looked at them. It had been long enough since she had felt happy that she lost the ability to recognize the emotion.

It's a particularly dangerous depressive symptom, because it robs you of the ability to feel those little spots of joy that keep a lot of people going, while not doing anything to impair your ability to function. If you don't know that this is a treatable symptom of depression, it's easy to assume that your ability to feel good is permanently broken, and decide to commit suicide because you don't want to live like that. It's not an irrational conclusion, but it is an uninformed one, and everyone deserves to have all the information when making a major decision.

This is what a lot of questionnaires are trying to look for when they ask about "loss of enjoyment". If you can't remember a loss of enjoyment because you can't remember enjoyment, then you probably have anhedonia. If you struggle to define how it is to feel "happy", "content", or "good", or how it feels when you feel those emotions, you probably have anhedonia. If you can't remember feeling any of those emotions for a week or more, you probably have anhedonia.

Symptoms commonly co-occurring with anhedonia are fatigue (often the cause), clear and thoughtful consideration of suicide, loss of desire to socialize or do activities that used to make you happy, and weight loss (due to lack of enjoyment of food).

This section is anecdotal. In what I have observed, anhedonia due to fatigue rarely responds well to depression treatment unless depression was causing the fatigue. If fatigue and anhedonia are co-occurring and are not both alleviated by depression treatment, consider other causes for the fatigue.

the rich =/= someone who has something I can't afford :(

the rich = the fucking rich

”my blorbo is unpopular” this “my blorbo is the causer of all discourse” that. I’m under an unofficial NDA so i am Literally not allowed to talk about this blorbo

the rich =/= someone who has something I can't afford :(

the rich = the fucking rich

Viola the circus elephant didn't escape, she politely removed herself from an uncomfortable situation. role model to us all

Yes he’s a 393 ft. Titan, but have you considered that he’s my pookie wookie shmoopie goopy little cutie pie?

this guy suuuucksss he can't catch anythingggg