CHAPTER 19
There’s something about depression, this self-propelling spiral. You start feeling tired, isolated, lonely, so you respond by locking yourself in your room and withdrawing even more from the world. The experts tell you to engage, find a hobby, call a friend, even take yourself out for a walk, but they don’t realize that all of those activities require energy. Energy you don’t have when the depression’s sucking you dry.
Or they tell you to clean up. People who live in cluttered houses are three times more likely to develop depression, studies find. Did anyone stop to think that maybe the reason depressed people have dirty homes is that they’re too exhausted to clean up?
So much of depression treatment these days is putting band-aids on the symptoms. Have you noticed that? Like
