Coexisting with Depression at 30

A long, deeply honest essay about making peace with yourself, healing, and reconstructing your life.

Each of us may need a period of doing nothing to revisit the fundamental rules of our lives—money, friends, aesthetics, and family. These shape our worldview.

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A profound realization:

Only you are your own pressure, your own source of suffering. No one else is responsible for it.

Only you can hold expectations for yourself; you cannot fulfill anyone else's expectations.