Allie Brosh has done an amazing thing. She has managed to concisely and humorously explain what it’s like to have depression. I want you to understand. I want you to get it, so I don’t always feel like such a jerk for not being riotously happy to be alive. 

Read this first:

http://hyperboleandahalf.blogspot.com/2011/10/adventures-in-depression.html

When you’re done with that one, read this one:

http://hyperboleandahalf.blogspot.com/2013/05/depression-part-two.html

I feel like if you read both those essays and you still think it will help me to say “It could be worse!” then we can both agree that you’ll just never understand and I won’t bother you about it. At least we tried.