Post by mdorman

The question is kind of tongue-in-cheek but the fact is I'm starting to think that for me the answer is "mild depression".

Now I'm really not trying to cause anyone concern--this is not "I'm going to go jump off a bridge now" material. I don't feel unhappy or anything--which even now makes me wonder if I'm wrong--instead, I'm just totally and utterly apathetic. I have no energy, no desire to do anything active at all--I'd happily sleep, eat and watch television, maybe read and play World of Warcraft.

In fact, at first I just thought it was that I was tired--three months in DC did take a lot out of me; it was stressful for a whole host of reasons, and it didn't exactly end on a high note. But I've had plenty of time to get past the physiological effects, and yet here I find myself, feeling like Inertia Man--if I can get moving, I can sometimes find some energy and keep it going, but most of the time, I lose steam quickly. And it happens pretty much every year.

Oh, well, as reliably as it comes, it goes, too. In a couple of weeks I'll wake up bursting with energy, wondering why I was so egregiously slack for the last month--it's just weird to realize all this.