Many depressed people have more than just depression going on with them. They also suffer from exhaustion.
I’m not talking about the kind of gosh-I’ve-been-up-all-night-and-I-really-need-to-get-some-rest type of exhaustion, I’m taking about long term, utter weariness, where everything is a struggle and just getting up and facing a new day is a challenge that is almost insurmountable.
This weariness saps our strength, our internal fortitude, and our resolve to get a move on. Worse, it adds to the depression because it means when we have to deal with things, we don’t have the energy to do so.
Exhaustion is that will make you collapse on in on yourself.
It also triggers the self-recrimination, victim process, and you become very hard, and self-depreciating. You may well blame yourself for all the things you can’t do because you’re tired, and feel that you need to go to extremes in your behavior to change things.
All the while, you know, in the very back of your mind, that you’re in a victim / poor me cycle, and you’re hoping others will notice your extreme behavior and understand that you are pushed way past your limits, and probably can’t take much more before you implode.
This is a very, very serious state to be in, and rest and renewing energies are what is needed. Unfortunately, for some, even proper sleep is a luxury rather than something that just happens.
Those with sleep disorders will be quite prone to this type of depression.
Depression is a drain on the soul, and that leads to the exhaustion people feel.
Exhaustion leads to greater depression, which in turn causes even more drain on the soul.
You can see it’s a vicious circle and one that is very hard to break out of because many other emotions tend to kick in extreme, almost undefinable levels, such as guilt, terror, panic, and the feeling of being a victim.
We are so screwed up as a society that we would rather people repress their emotions and not bother anyone than seek to heal the causes that produce such things.
This has to change.
This will change.
Even if we do it one person at a time.
