{"id":2802,"date":"2015-03-09T16:48:28","date_gmt":"2015-03-09T22:48:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.coffeechick.com\/words\/?p=2802"},"modified":"2015-03-09T16:48:28","modified_gmt":"2015-03-09T22:48:28","slug":"dark-days","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.coffeechick.com\/words\/2015\/03\/09\/dark-days\/","title":{"rendered":"Dark Days."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s nothing particularly awesome about depression.  It&#8217;s fucking horrible when you know that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.coffeechick.com\/words\/2013\/05\/16\/helping-others-when-you-cant-help-yourself\/\">everyone else somehow got a less buggy version of the same game<\/a>.  We all experience it a little differently, too.  <\/p>\n<p>I think you&#8217;ll know what I mean when I say that the random Dark Days might be the worst, though.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>A Dark Day is a random day in the middle of a good stretch&#8211;a week or so of days where you&#8217;re almost normal.  By your own personal standards, you&#8217;re a regular ray of sunshine, and everything is actually going fairly well.  You&#8217;re sleeping okay, you&#8217;re thinking clearly, and, gosh, it almost seems like you&#8217;ve got this shit beat after all.  Things really are looking up!  Hooray for therapy, meds, and all that effort!<\/p>\n<p>Then, out of nowhere, the emotional steamroller of depression crushes you again, and you&#8217;re curled up in bed, sobbing as quietly as possible [so nobody notices, you wouldn&#8217;t want to disturb everyone else with your fucking bullshit problems, now would you], and you don&#8217;t even fucking know <i>why<\/i>.<\/p>\n<p>Dark Day.  Dark. Fucking. Day.  <\/p>\n<p>I had one of those yesterday.  <\/p>\n<p>And now I feel like I&#8217;m right back where I started.  I&#8217;m all the way at the bottom of that fucking pit.<\/p>\n<p>But I think I remember the path back up.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s nothing particularly awesome about depression. It&#8217;s fucking horrible when you know that everyone else somehow got a less buggy version of the same game. We all experience it a little differently, too. I think you&#8217;ll know what I mean &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.coffeechick.com\/words\/2015\/03\/09\/dark-days\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[205],"class_list":["post-2802","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bib","tag-depression"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3bMfN-Jc","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.coffeechick.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2802","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.coffeechick.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.coffeechick.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.coffeechick.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.coffeechick.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2802"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.coffeechick.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2802\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2803,"href":"http:\/\/www.coffeechick.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2802\/revisions\/2803"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.coffeechick.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2802"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.coffeechick.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2802"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.coffeechick.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2802"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}