What Depression Sounds Like

• I just don't feel like it.
• Go without me.
• I don't care.
• I just want to die.
• You want a piece of this, motherfucker?!
• I'm 'a bust a cap in his ass.
• Shut up bitch.
• Somebody's gonna pay.
• I'll give you something to cry about.
• Go away.
•  I can't feel anything.
• What's the point?
• I don't drink too much!
• I don't feel right. I know something is wrong with me, but the doctor can't find it.
• It's just nerves.
• I can't stop crying.
• I can't handle it.
• I don't need anybody.
• People just let you down.
• I don't trust anyone.
• Can you supersize that?
• I'm fat and ugly; nobody would want me.
• I can't breathe.
• I think I'm having a heart attack.
• Nothing good ever happens to me.
• Life sucks.
• I ain't shit.
• That nigga ain't shit

Excerpt from "Black Pain" It Just Looks Like We're Not Hurting

Terrie M. Williams