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Why?

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This diaries are actually my experience with depression and anxiety. I’m writing them because I had a really hard time wrapping my head around the fact that I am dealing with depression and anxiety, accepting the fact that they are a real thing in my life. Eventually I noticed that part of the resistance was because I was really misinformed about this things. The encounters I’ve had about mental health where short (no one wants to talk about this), a lot of them misguided, either very clinical, steril and cold or veiled by a sense of shame, guilt and lots of mystery. Even though writing these diaries does not come free of shame and lots of awkwardness I’m hoping the story will be a little bit more approachable and relatable. Taking the power away from those big daunting words that at times depression and anxiety seem to be. Allowing us to sit with them and get to know them in a more comfy, sweatpants and netflix kind of way. Oh the big question you have, what does a head
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Sisyphus with the hand break I.

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If you find this post a mess and hard to understand, just take with you the idea that depression and anxiety come into the life of each person in a different way, but what they have in common is: they make our lives harder, more complicated. Living with them is trying to live carrying around a giant boulder like Sisyphus or like being a car trying to go with the hand brake on… or a combination of both. If after reading the post you feel like that, get help, someone to help you removing the hand break or to put the boulder down (in plain language… go find a therapist) A while ago if you’d asked to describe depression I would have said is extreme sadness, you cry a lot and you want to die. If you’d asked me to describe anxiety I’d say that you can’t stay still and that you always think something terrible is about to happen. In summary a while ago I did not know shit and that is very dangerous. Actually the list of symptoms for depression and anxiety are fairly long, but I had n
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