Depression = Overwhelm! 💙

In depression, it feels like you just can't cope with your life! There's too much going on, it's too hard, and you can't cope. You just want to freeze life and maybe take away some pieces to make it that you could possibly try and cope with life.💙

That's why it's so frustrating when someone says, I know what you should do, you should do X or Y or Z. It's like, it's not possible to add something to what's going on in a depressed person's life. They simply don't have the energy, they don't have the cognitive ability to deal with something else. 💙

So the best way to support someone with depression is to try to take things off their plate or to just be there with some kindness and compassion. But please don't say, you should do this, you should do that, you should do the other as something extra. 💙