I have this bad habit of going nuclear on the people I care about most when I sense the depression hitting. I lash out at them.

Perhaps I should try to be MIA instead.

Obviously the ideal is to be able to navigate relationships with kindness even when you're depressed, but as we all know, when you are depressed, this can be very hard to do. It's like asking someone who has horrible abdominal pain to sing a solo. Or someone who has round ligament pain to run a marathon.