I’m slowly accepting that I shouldn’t come OFF anti-depressants. I wish we talked more about symptoms of depression other than extreme sadness and suicidal thoughts. I only have extreme sadness sometimes, but other symptoms always & it’s taken me years to understand that.

Other symptoms are irritability, apathy (that’s mega me!), confusion and cloudiness, forgetfulness, changes in speech patterns/vocabulary, exhaustion or insomnia or both, under or over eating, muscle tightness and stress!!! And more!! There are so many!!

I have every single one of those symptoms above and have since I was 15/16, and I STILL convince myself I don’t have “Real Depression” because I’m not suicidal and I don’t cry often.

Also worth noting that symptoms often show differently between men and women and a lot of what we understand as depression is symptoms commonly seen in men