It is hard to figure out what's wrong with you when the organ that is supposed to tell you something is wrong isn't working right

Dysthymia, the depression that causes you to not feel anything, may be your personal flavour. You probably look around and see people living their lives, enjoying themselves and think why can't I do that? Because something in your brain is sending and receiving the wrong signals. People, even now, think of mental illness as a character flaw, rather than a actual physical illness. The brain is physical, it processes data, it runs the ebb and flow of everything and, when there is something wrong, even a little, it messes with the whole

Let me tell you a story about a little experiment: The subject was given glasses that turned their vision upside down. It took several days but eventually the subject's brain started to see things normally. The brain adjusted to the error. When they took the glasses off after the experiment, things were upside down for several days until it re-adjusted.

With depression, your brain knows the wrong signals are going out so it tries to reduce the cognitive dissonance. But it cannot detect internally so it cannot accept that the internal signal is wrong so it must be an outside factor. It, meaning you, will try to find reasons for feeling bad.

The brain, despite many advances in medicine, is still very much a black box. It is unbelievably complicated - in fact it remains the most complex thing we know of. It listens for things wrong in the body and tries to correct them but the one thing it cannot correct is itself because the sensor cannot sense itself