Wait, I want to play this conect-two-different-things game:

It's kind of scary how many times this GIF is used around here. Not because we're chronic users...but because there are so many things going on in the world where this feeling is applicable.

Funny, you didnt mention there IS a correlation.

Well luckily for us, this guy doesn't sit on any scientific or health related committees for Congress......oh wait.....he does....he sits on the Natural Resources and the Science, Space and Technology Committee. Well, he must at least have a M.S. or even a B.S. in something scientific, right? Nope, he has a B.A.…

Sometimes this is the only response.

"I believe I have the liberty to live by my principles."

Starting an internet comment with 'umm yea' is passive-aggressive, grammatically incorrect and anyone can do it.

Sounds like someone's husband was caught window shopping.

Yes. Women need more men telling them that they should work out more or else their bodies won't adequately please a man in yet one more way.

Really frustrating to see these people claim that there's no difference when there are SO MANY differences. Yup, all that makeup/complexion change and waistline changes and outfits sparkly-ness and making her hair acceptably curly are just nothing, you guys! No changes at all!

YES. Sometimes I just need people to be all "c'mere" and hug me. Not try to "fix" it or make me "feel better" or any of that. Sometimes? All you need at that moment is a hug. And maybe some cookies, because when do cookies NOT help?

I agree she does an incredible job describing what it feels like. Especially in her first post on depression, where she describes getting so angry at herself for being depressed. She writes that there seems to be no solution, but it reads like the medication really helped her. (Plus I think, for a lot of people, the…

Everything really resonated with me. Especially the parts about how other people react to your depression. Because even though they mean well, it gets really frustrating having them sit there trying to talk through it when there's really no way to reason through it, and the proper reaction is to HUG ME so I actually…

"However, I could no longer rely on genuine emotion to generate facial expressions, and when you have to spend every social interaction consciously manipulating your face into shapes that are only approximately the right ones, alienating people is inevitable."

I felt physical pain reading that, particularly when she talked about not wanting to kill herself, but wanting to be dead. It 100% described my (thankfully) relatively short experience with depression, and thinking about it again just makes me hurt all over. So glad she has gotten help, and has found the other side.

Nails it, indeed. She gets it SO right. Depression sucks for awhile and then it stops sucking and just starts being... nothing. Getting out of the "nothing" stage is soooo fucking hard, and some days it feels like I'm scratching and clawing to STAY out of the "nothing."

How the hell are you not an approved commenter already?!

Note to MRAs: This isn't a documentary. Do me a solid and try to keep that in mind before you use this in your next fear-mongering campaign, Fox News style.

I was worried that it'd be too judgemental as well, and though it was a litttttle too long I definitely enjoyed it.