Ah, the brickwall, I know it well. I ran into one yesterday. The stuff I've been through the past six months caught up to me. I think I have "Sunday syndrome", in that Sundays make me too anxious and inner-focused. Normally I watch football to distract me, but it hasn't been working this year...it just hasn't.

And no, you're not being selfish by avoiding other people's issues when you have your own to deal with. This is something I realized this year re: my parents. They have their own mental issues, and they do little to deal with them. The thing is, I'm at an age where I can't just accept them and acocmodate them. Especially since my wife and I will hopefully get going on the kid-producing project soon, once we're back living under the same roof. I'll have my own nuclear family, and won't have time to babysit the other one.

Sorry, I spent a lot of time talking about myself there. I hope you can at least see that so many of us have to deal with these issues, and it can be a cold world out there for the mentally ill, with few people understanding what we're going through. But the folks here? We all get it.