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I don\u2019t know who to be: the school child me, with high grades but a rebellious streak; young adult me, flirting with socialism and madness; or \u201cmature\u201d me, literary, tired, and slightly jaded.<\/p>\n<p>The truth is, depression has pretty much wiped me of my identity. I don\u2019t know who I am anymore, so I don\u2019t know how to relate to you. I\u2019m worried that you\u2019ll judge me, size me up and condemn me for not making a decent effort with my life. You\u2019ll ask about my annual salary, if I have any kids yet, where am I holidaying this year. I\u2019m not willing to share details with you, and sorry, but I have no interest in how you are doing either.<\/p>\n<p>Depression makes you selfish: you need to concentrate so hard on getting yourself through the day, that other people can be pushed out onto the peripherals. Close friends remain; it is true that I have kept in touch with a few select people, who float sporadically in and out of my life. But even these folk I sometimes avoid, or do not return their calls. They all know about my illness, they understand that I could have a bad week and not feel like talking. But how do I explain that to someone I was once in the same class with and I haven\u2019t seen in over a decade? Will you understand, will you pity me, or will you politely end the conversation and back off, go home and tell fellow ex-classmates, \u2018Guess who I met today, and is now completely insane?\u2019&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I found this article very interesting. Coming out of the other side of depression, I no longer feel this way when I run into people I know, pretty much I try to be approachable anytime now. But, when I run into people who knew me before, I do have that anxiety about how to relate to them. I&#8217;m not the same person I was back then, and I have no desire to be that person, because I was trying so hard to hide what I was going through. 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