Is depression honest?

(written by lawrence krubner, however indented passages are often quotes). You can contact lawrence at: lawrence@krubner.com, or follow me on Twitter.

Interesting:

Depressed Rand is weird. Don’t get me wrong, regular Rand is weird, too. But depressed Rand magnifies the bad 10X and minimizes the good. He refuses to even acknowledge good news and, because he’s a pretty smart guy, he can usually argue for why that good news is actually just temporary and will turn to shit any minute. The weird part is, I think depressed Rand is actually a very authentic version of myself. When I felt depressed, I upheld TAGFEE – particularly the values of transparency and authenticity – as the reasons why I could and should be such a raging, all-consuming, negative naysayer.

For months, I worked with CEO coaches, and then therapists to try and disconnect my personal happiness from Moz’s company performance. I thought that was a critical goal that I needed to do in order to get back to a better place. Eventually, this Spring, I gave it up. I decided that in order to be happy, Moz had to do better, and I put more of my mental and emotional energy there, rather than lamenting a rewiring I couldn’t make my head perform.

I do the same: when people ask me why I am so negative, I tell them that I am trying to be authentic, honest and transparent. All of which is true.

And also, I’ve had friends say this to me too:

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