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Mental Health

I experience mild depression.  I don't want to say I 'suffer' from it because I feel like that's giving it too much power and too much credence to something that other people experience in much greater volumes than I do. I guess also why I used the word 'mild'. I think it's only become apparent in the last few months.  Triggered by the break up, but I think in reality it's sat there for a long time, a bit like British weather, an overcast day that I have just accepted as normal, but then there's a heatwave or spring or autumn or snow and everything is colourful and beautiful and exciting and then bam, it's back to overcast.  The only way to describe the most recent bout is it feels like I am surrounded by dense grey fog, my brain doesn't feel happy and isn't functioning to its full potential.  Things I used to get pleasure from don't excite me anymore and I don't look forward to anything.  I struggle to pay attention to anythi