Gina shared this with me yesterday and it is a spot on set of examples of how the combination of anxiety and depression can cause a state of dissonance for the affected person, who in this case is me.

Having anxiety and depression is like being scared and tired at the same time.

It’s the fear of failure but no urge to be productive.

It’s wanting friends but hating to socialize.

It’s wanting to be alone but not wanting to be lonely.

It’s caring about everything, then caring about nothing.

It’s feeling everything at once, then feeling paralyzingly numb.

I tried to find the original writer or source of this but it’s been floating around for years, and shared and reshared on just about every platform you can imagine, with no attribution

And in today’s example of Scott’s Brain is weird:

Yes, I know dissonance and “Dissident” are completely unrelated things but as I wrote this post, every time I typed the word dissonance – I heard it in Eddie Vedder’s voice, like this:

None of you would last 10 seconds in my brain…