“Depression is a disorder of mood, so mysteriously painful and elusive in the way it becomes known to the self…as to verge close to being beyond description.” William Styron, Darkness Visible
I was reminded recently, when I told the members of my forum for people with depression that we were moving back to a previous software platform, how any change can freak out someone with depression. Even though we were moving back to software that many members had complained about leaving in the first place when we changed last fall, many members (in some cases, the same ones) were now complaining about going “home,” as one member who was happy with the reversal put it.
I’ve run into this depression symptom many times during the ten or so years I’ve had my forum. But if you look on any of the depression symptoms lists, the ones many people use to self-diagnose, you wouldn’t see “strong resistance to changes.”
