A facebook-only friend (we have never met) said this: “Everything we define as “reality” is filtered through chemical processes tuned over millions of years and evolved explicitly to keep us alive and reproducing. It’s entirely possible that we are microbes on the crust of a burning pebble among cosmic events that we cannot influence, destined to evaporate in the unfathomable void of time and space. When faced with someone who glimpses the absurdity of human function in the context of our nihilistic reality, we consider them to be broken, and their illusion of purpose in need of repair. In a sense, depression is a logical response to abject hopelessness, in…