depression, chapter two

On days like this, I have to fight THE URGE. I have to wrangle it and calm it down like it's some wild animal, or risk being overtaken by THE SADNESS. (THE URGE is simply the desire for anything to happen, rather than nothing, and THE SADNESS is an intense longing for the old days, when things were happening in my life. I have capitalized them because these feelings are so immediately recognizable…