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That's the weird thing about depression. At the moment it seems totally rational. Then you look back and think WTF? Like today. I look at the comment I original

• Jtsummers 11y ago
  Indeed. The way I explained it to my ex-girlfriend (it ended because of my depression, though I didn't realize I'd fallen back into it at the time): In the moment I was perfectly rational, based on what I believed or "knew" to be true. But what I understood to be true wasn't, in fact, true. Or it was, but the scale was far less significant than what I perceived it to be. Which means that, to the outsider, I was clearly out of my mind (and was), but if they saw what I saw, and heard what I heard, they'd have come to the same conclusions. Goes back to this and other recent posts on things like catastrophic thinking. OTOH, I generally make these comments when I'm in a more positive mood. That's the only time I can put words to what I experienced.
• Lawtonfogle 11y ago
  It isn't just depression. Look at a teenager in love. They will do something today fully defending it for being true love, but in 10 years they will lay awake at night cringing at the very same action.