Depression isn’t always a darkness.
Sometimes it’s seeing reality too clearly – and not being able to look away.
Youve been told you’re too sensitive, too emotional, too much in your head.
But maybe the truth is: you SEE too much.
Not in some mystical way just in a painfully clear one.
you notice the pause before someone answers
The smile that doesn’t reach their eyes.
The way hope rises, then crashes.
How kindness come, then fades.
This kind of seeing doesn’t feel like a gift
It feels like weight.
Because once you see the cracks, you can’t unsee them.
And trying to make sense of a world that constantly contradicts itself – with so much evil in it, especially with a mind already heavy – is exhausting.

Maybe that’s what depression really is, sometimes:
Not just sadness but unbearable clarity.
The kind that keep you awake while others sleep.
The kind that keeps trying to fix what everyone else ignores.
And maybe that’s not weakness.
Maybe that’s your mind refusing to go numb in a world that wants it to