The Surprising Truth About Emotional Vulnerability and Manipulation

So it's kind of funny when I talk about depression the number of people who defend depression depression ruin my life It's super real and my lost my wife and my life is over and I want to kill myself It's real Like surely you should like my my worldview of depression So terrible and it's destroyed your entire existence You should be listening to me tell you it's not real But instead they're defending it and sticking up for it which I find very interesting So that's the first thing in regards to whether I have had any of my convictions challenged It's kind of amazing Maybe it's just a semantics trick and maybe it's that simple Maybe it's as simple as saying I feel a little bit depressed today but I am not a depressed person and I cannot become depressive I'm not going to have depression Maybe it's just a semantics trip And by saying that alone I understand that it's a temporary state of mind which I can alter and I can affect