Is it normal that my depression feels like "home"?

I know, it sounds pretty weird. I've suffered from depression for 4/5 years now. I'm so used to feeling depressed, that it feels like the right emotion for me. Don't get me wrong, at one point I'd love to get help and talk about it, but something deep within me doesn't. I feel like my depression is my home. It's something I've known for years now. Other emotions just don't feel right to me anymore. It's like when you're going to a place you're not familiar with, and you're glad to be home later on. I feel like living happily forever is a total bullshit story anyways, so whenever I start feeling happy, I don't think it's real. I mostly remember that life, for me, has no purpose, and being happy is just lying to myself because I know better than that. Depression feels like home. I can't explain it otherwise.. but it does. My question, is it normal to both love and hate this emotion I get from depression? And better yet, do you have depression and get what I mean?

Is It Normal?
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  • Don't worry, help is on the way. We're going to Make America Great Again. The rising tide lifts all boats. Trump 2016

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  • Depression is the comfortable home that you have created for yourself and you can't imagine anything outside of it.

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  • The only time I'm not depressed is when I'm extracting teeth without anaesthetic, so depression is sort of my home, I guess.

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  • Life isn't a destination, like "happily ever after" it's about the journey, and you only get 1 try. Feel free to waste yours wallowing in self-pity, or come out and join the party. Your choice.

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  • That's what makes depression so scary. It tells you that there's no point in trying. It convinces you that the pain of trying to be happy is worse than being numb. It's not true.

    I'm living this now except I know what it's doing to me and why I can't be friends with my depression anymore. It's strangling the life out of me.

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    • Very well said.

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  • You might feel better if you fuck a sweet innocent little boy in his tight asshole.

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