I feel dumb asking this, but now that I am trying to notice signals that my moods are shifting, and become aware of my change in perception, I thought I would ask. I feel like I am slowly slipping into a depression right now.

When baseline, I am quirky, but positive, a little bubbly, slightly socially awkward, and very smart but ditzy when it comes to common things like sports. I usually try to see the best in people and feel moderately liked by people around me.

Lately, especially this past week, I think people that I work with don't really like me. Like maybe they have to pretend to be nice because they work with me, but they don't actually like me. I *think* I have evidence for this, but I am not sure if my evidence is skewed by my mental state.

Does anyone else feel this way when depressed? What do you do to ground your thoughts? I don't want to feel unliked, but I do feel unliked. I am also tending to dissect everything I do right now and think that I pretty much suck at all aspects of my job. I hope this is not true, it feels like it though.

I guess I am trying to find out, when depressed, how do you gauge reality accurately?