Dear brain,

I know you're just trying to help, but could you please stop constantly trying to make me feel better. It's exhausting. Just let me be sad and hopeless. Even in front of other people. Stringing me along with hope of better days is torture. Could we please try surrendering to the awfulness of our lives for a change? I know you've evolved to avoid this like the plague but you have to remember we don't live on the savannah anymore. Yes, it's very easy to allow ourselves to get sucked back into the promise of change but how many times do we need to go through this before you realize? We're both so tired, let's lay down the burden already.

Sincerely,
A sad person