{"id":193226,"date":"2014-09-02T06:48:07","date_gmt":"2014-09-02T06:48:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2014\/09\/02\/depression-does-not-always-mean-beautiful-girls\/"},"modified":"2014-09-02T06:48:07","modified_gmt":"2014-09-02T06:48:07","slug":"depression-does-not-always-mean-beautiful-girls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2014\/09\/02\/depression-does-not-always-mean-beautiful-girls\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote>\n<p>Depression does not always mean<br \/>\nBeautiful girls shattering at the wrists<br \/>\nA glorified, heroic battle for your sanity<br \/>\nOr mothers that never got the chance to say good-bye<\/p>\n<p>Sometimes depression means<br \/>\nNot getting out of bed for three days<br \/>\nBecause your feet refuse to believe<br \/>\nThat they will not shatter upon impact with the floor<\/p>\n<p>Sometimes depression means <br \/>\nThat summoning the willpower <br \/>\nTo go downstairs and do the laundry<br \/>\nIs the most impressive thing you accomplish that week<\/p>\n<p>Sometimes depression means<br \/>\nLying on the floor staring at the ceiling for hours<br \/>\nBecause you cannot convince your body <br \/>\nThat it is capable of movement<\/p>\n<p>Sometimes depression means<br \/>\nNot being able to write for weeks <br \/>\nBecause the only words you have to offer the world<br \/>\nAre trapped and drowning and I swear to God I\u2019m trying<\/p>\n<p>Sometimes depression means <br \/>\nThat every single bone in your body aches <br \/>\nBut you have to keep going through the motions<br \/>\nBecause you are not allowed to call in to work depressed<\/p>\n<p>Sometimes depression means<br \/>\nIgnoring every phone call for an entire month<br \/>\nBecause yes, they have the right number<br \/>\nBut you\u2019re not the person they\u2019re looking for, not anymore<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<div class='attribution'>\n<p>by \u201cAlexandra\u201d Tilton, NH (Teen Ink: November 2013 Issue)<\/p>\n<p>This is so sad<\/p>\n<p>(via <a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/xwhatever-nevermindx.tumblr.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">xwhatever-nevermindx<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately accurate.<\/p>\n<p>(via <a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/elementalsight.tumblr.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">elementalsight<\/a>)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Depression does not always mean Beautiful girls shattering at the wrists A glorified, heroic battle for your sanity Or mothers that never got the chance to say good-bye Sometimes depression means Not getting out of bed for three days Because your feet refuse to believe That they will not shatter upon impact with the floor &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2014\/09\/02\/depression-does-not-always-mean-beautiful-girls\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"quote","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[1068,4,1490],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193226"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=193226"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193226\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=193226"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=193226"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=193226"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}