@snaptophobic @Maker_of_Things I share this mood! My psychiatrist says one of the hardest things is to start doing the things that improve mood while feeling down. I instinctively feel that I need to be happy to do the things that ‘belong’ with happiness but he argues that doing my hobbies helps me lift myself out of the gloom, even if not all the way or not for long. I tend to rebel against ‘happiness as a choice’ theories but, in fact, while not being a ‘cure’ (and it seems now I am never going to have a cure as such) what I choose to do with my time has a great effect on my mood. I suppose, secondarily, the problem with social media is it’s hard to convey these complexities so we see pictures and texts from each other as denoting a single emotion (did a thing = happy) when in reality they never do.