I spend my time acting

HappyHappyHappy like someone I'm not.

Preserving a mask,

SadSadSadSadSad while my insides rot.

I'm insane, and no one wants to admit it.

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I watched an educational video in school today about stress in the workplace. It gave a list of around a dozen symptoms of depression... I have to say I was intrigued to find that I have fit a good number of those symptoms simultaneously for as long as I can remember. . Then I thought, '...could it be possible that I have never felt happiness?' ...and this struck me as kind of odd. To tell the difference, you surely would have had to experience them both. Yes! There had to have been happy times... I'm sure of it!