...let the emotional weight of a scene rest on the dialogue wherever possible. This is the easy way to avoid overinterpretation, which seems to be what turns a scene from sympathetic to sentimental.

To have a reason to get up in the morning, it is necessary to have some kind of guiding principle. A belief of some kind

For me being depressed means you can spend all day in bed, and still not get a good night's rest.

Depending on the reality one must face, one may prefer to opt for illusion.

. . . crazy world or maybe it's just the view we have of it, looking through a crack in the door, never being able to see the whole room, the whole picture.

Geez, if I could get through to you, kiddo, that depression is not sobbing and crying and giving vent, it is plain and simple reduction of feeling. Reduction, see? Of all feeling. People who keep stiff upper lips find that it's damn hard to smile.

Writers don't write to inform other people, they write to find out something themselves.