What if I just started to lie to everyone and if people ask how I am doing say Great! Great! Great!

Because, you know, that's really all people want to hear.

I have a counselor call me every Monday and today I am just going to lie when she calls and asks how I am. I am going to say Great! GREAT! GREAT!

Will it strike her as weird that someone who has been suicidally depressed for 3 to 6 months is suddenly great??? I will tell you what I think. Not!

If she was good at her job I would think she might ask how someone could feel chronically suicidal and then in a week feel great for no damn good reason...

But I get my week's grocery money that she will not question the validity of my mood.

In fact I think I am just going to start telling everyone I am great.

This is really what people want to hear. They don't give a fig about truth.