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I wrote a post a few minutes ago and then had a very weird comment and deleted my whole post.  LOL.  Maybe that was a bit extreme, it was just my first reaction.  My post was about how I’m feeling a little bit depressed (I just meant sad, not stay in bed all day and ignore your child!) about the three day weekend, because we’ll be alone all weekend.  I mentioned that it was the same way last year on the 4^th.  So, holidays can be crappy sometimes.  Oh well. 

I also said, in my deleted post, that we did have some plans on Saturday (a birthday party and maybe a cookout with relatives, if someone will tell me a time) and that it was probably just the anticipation of the long weekend that made me sad.  I said that we would probably have a busy and fun weekend, but I wasn’t looking at it that way right now.

I know that’s just a recap, but does that sound like “clinical depression” to you?  I was feeling a little bit sad, but I still said good things in the middle of it, and I ended it on a good note.  I shouldn’t have deleted it, then you could judge for yourself, but it was a quick reaction that I didn’t think about.  My only thought was “Oh crap!  If it sounds like I’m that depressed, I should delete this before anyone I know reads it!”  Trust me, I’ve written worse (and better).

The commenter told me that it was a “strange post” and that I was clinically depressed and needed to drag myself out of the house to see a doctor.  That’s odd, since I’m on my lunch break, at work, right now.  Maybe I shouldn’t even pay attention, since it’s a total stranger and someone that doesn’t even read my blog.  It just got under my skin because I have been through a lot in the past couple of years and I have never been “clinically depressed.”  Have I seen a doctor to make that determination for me?  No, but I have never stopped functioning or even stopped enjoying life.  Depression isn’t something to joke about, I understand that, but I’m not depressed.  I have had a few blue days, but I’ve never lost all hope.  I’m generally a happy person (if a little stressed out at times) and usually look at the bright side of things.  I’ve had people ask me how I went through everything I did and still function.  Sometimes writing is a way for me to vent and maybe things sound a little more extreme than they are.  (I still don’t think this post was that extreme.)  I hope people don’t take my writing the wrong way, and I’ll try to be more careful, but it still wasn’t that bad.  (How many times can I say that in one post?)  I feel like, if the commenter had read more than one post, he or she probably wouldn’t have thought I was clinically depressed.  Okay, time to get off my soapbox.  I feel better.  Yes, this was another venting post.  Haha.  I don’t mind constructive criticism or suggestions, but don’t label me after reading one post. 

Anyway, don’t worry, I’m not depressed and I’m even feeling a little bit better about my weekend now.  Maybe irritation is good for the blues?  Haha.  Okay, back to work.  Sorry you guys had to listen to my little rant, but I’m better now.

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