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Mark it down Canada. Based on what I’ve seen on social media in past years, this has been a huge success not only in terms of raising awareness, but also hard cash! Also note, for some of these, you don’t even have to be Canadian to take part. “Bell donates 5 cents to Canadian mental…
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Numb is exactly the word I would use to describe what I felt. I didn’t look sad, and I didn’t cry. I didn’t talk about my negative emotions. I simply felt nothing. I had lost the ability to feel sad, happy, hopeful, angry, etc. Nothing made any difference, and nothing mattered.
Often we describe depression as sadness, and our media depictions are of people looking and acting sad. We can’t forget that there are also times when depression doesn’t look like that, it might look like numbness, and it might look like anger and irritation.
Sharing – How to Talk to Friends About Your Depression
I think, for many of us, we’ve always assumed that when you want to have a difficult conversation, and disclosing your depression can be a difficult conversation, you wanted to set aside a time to have it without any distractions.
What if the distractions would help instead?
