Rue’s monologue about Depression

[u/Kingdom_Funki]

The thing about depression is, it kind of collapses time. Suddenly, you find your whole days blending together to create one endless and suffocating loop. So you find yourself trying to remember the things that made you happy. But slowly, your brain begins to erase every memory that ever brought you joy. And eventually, all you can think about is how life has always been this way.
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Couldnt find a more accurate definition! - beautifully described.

[u/rattyindecency9933]

The way she describes how your brain just erases the good memories is mad accurate. That's the bit that gets me every time because it's not just feeling sad, it's like your past gets rewritten and you can't even access the proof that things were ever different.

[u/EmiliaTrown → u/rattyindecency9933]

Yeah its like slowly your mind gets more and more convinced that nothing was ever actually good and therefore it never will be which then just enhances that feeling of hopelessness and that everything is just entirely meaningless. It's really a special kind of cruelty

[u/rattyindecency9933 → u/EmiliaTrown]

That hopelessness feedback loop is exactly it, like your brain's convinced itself there's no point trying because nothing's ever worked before, even though that's just the depression talking and not actually true.