No, not chronic. Or even manic. This isn't a journal where I sob about my problems. I try to avoid posting those because, for the most part, no matter how honest they are they tend to read like pleas for attention.

Depression can be brought on by lots of things, and it's probably a lot of little, inconsequential things that you've already forgotten on an intellectual level. But emotions have momentum. So if a string of little downer moments and thoughts come together in a cluster, you can end up depressed.

This is the difference between every day depression, and clinical depression. Clinical depression is that even some positive momentum can't save you, because depression has become your default resting point. And that's not what this is.

So, what has me depressed? No idea what led to it, all those little, forgotten moments. I only know what tipped me over. I want to commission an image about "ringing in the New Year," but yeah, my usual problems with a payment vendor. The only one that provides the checks and protections that I want isn't even really a payment vendor, but is Linden Labs.

Any how, seeing as a lot of people can find themselves depressed at this time of year, remember that it isn't really the thing that tipped you over that has you depressed. It's all the little, forgotten annoyances and disappointments that plague this time of year that came before it. It will get better, and if it's getting to be too much, watch some funny cats on youtube. It always cheers me up! :-D