{"id":7888,"date":"2013-05-13T16:09:35","date_gmt":"2013-05-13T23:09:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/?p=7888"},"modified":"2026-01-21T16:31:32","modified_gmt":"2026-01-22T00:31:32","slug":"where-im-at","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/2013\/05\/13\/where-im-at\/","title":{"rendered":"Where I’m At"},"content":{"rendered":"

Allie Brosh sums it up beautifully. While I am not soul-crushingly depressed as she was, even a bout of soul-pinching depression has deleterious effects. It’s insidious. I’ve known something is askew, but stumbling in the fog I wasn’t clear about it specifically. Until I read Allie’s Depression Part 2 post, and found myself re-reading it about 10 times a day since, as well as her first post about depression. The fog cleared just enough to identify that yes, I am depressed. I used to get into a bout of it in springtime in years past; it had been a few years, and I’d forgotten about that. <\/p>\n

First: Adventures in Depression<\/a> by Allie Brosh @ Hyperbole and a Half<\/p>\n

Second: Depression Part 2<\/a> by Allie Brosh @ Hyperbole and a Half<\/p>\n

Over the past months I have slogged through feeling:
\nHopeless
\nHelpless
\nUnmotivated
\nPessimistic
\nIrritable
\nAngry
\nSad
\nExhausted
\nIsolated
\nDisconnected
\nListless
\nRestless
\nInsomnia
\nFoggy-brained
\nAbsent libido<\/p>\n

You might argue that this is the human condition. And while that is true to a point, experiencing all these feelings consistently for the past many weeks signifies something is wrong. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Allie Brosh sums it up beautifully. While I am not soul-crushingly depressed as she was, even a bout of soul-pinching depression has deleterious effects. It’s insidious. I’ve known something is askew, but stumbling in the fog I wasn’t clear about it specifically. Until I read Allie’s Depression Part 2 post, and found myself re-reading it […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,3,31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7888","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nature","category-science","category-social-science"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7888","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7888"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7888\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11929,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7888\/revisions\/11929"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7888"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7888"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7888"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}