[JohnCrow]

To cheese: to perturb, upset, piss off, annoy

When you say you suffer from depression people asking you why you are sad

I am not sad. Sadness is a perfectly normal, healthy reaction to an upsetting event. I was sad when my family dog died - I still feel sad when I think of her

Depression in many is not even a sense of sadness; quite often it is nothing. And I don't mean no feeling, I mean an inability to feel ANYTHING. Got a new job? yay. Cousin killed himself. aw. You have to learn to fake emotional responses that are appropriate because you come across as creepy by not responding in a "standard" way

[waterknob1234]

I think people who have never experienced depression cannot really understand it. That is what makes it hard for us. That is also why I like this forum because you can talk to people who are going thru the same thing and they understand.

At its worst, my depression makes me feel like the whole world is crashing down on me. At its best I just get into that "I don't give a darn" mode.