Depression & Hopelessness

When Your Body Quits Before Your Mind Does

For the person whose depression is physical first. They cannot get out of bed not because they are sad but because their body has turned to concrete. Brushing teeth is a marathon. The shower might as well be Everest. The executive function has collapsed and the simplest tasks feel like feats of engineering. Everyone says just get up and they cannot explain that getting up requires a currency they do not have.