One of the problems of depression is being considered selfish. So people think when you withdraw from them, when you withdraw from your responsibilities, your job, your chores, that you're being selfish and self-centered. 💙

What you're actually doing is self-preservation because what's going on for you is so overwhelming and it's so difficult to cope with and so painful that you withdraw in order to try and simplify your life and to try to keep things the same and unchanged so you can try to get a grip on them, but it's so, so difficult. 💙

So what you're doing is self-preservation, but it actually looks to other people that you're selfish. 💙