No one taught me how to process taunts, criticism, and outright insults as more reflective of the character of the person lobbing them than that of my own.

No one taught me how to process taunts, criticism, and outright insults as more reflective of the character of the person lobbing them than of my own character. My unique power as a depressive is that no one can use words to hurt me worse than I have used them to hurt myself.