re: #189 The Ghost of a Flea

Depression is the easiest thing to diagnose, because it’s got the simplest indicators of the psychological conditions and most people don’t struggle to articulate those symptoms. Whereas people with more complex issues may not have the language, self-awareness to articulate more complex feelings of fear, anger, et cetera…or view them as “normal” because there’s a cultural model of what your internal life should be like.

Winston Chruchill call it “the black dog” and I recall bouts of it hitting me even at times when things seemed to be going entirely well and I had nothing to be particularly down about.

Odd thing, that.