Saying No — The Gift of Depression

You might call it one of the gifts of depression — learning to say no. It happened years ago, after my daughter’s death, when people asked me to do things far too soon. I felt a strange disconnection with people who I normally loved. It felt almost like they were asking someone else, some phantom version of myself, not me. It felt like they were reading from some script and that it wasn’t real. So it became easy to say no. *I* wasn’t saying no…