How can compulsive overactivity mask depression?

One common and often-overlooked method for masking a depression is to keep so busy (compulsive overactivity) that you never have time to feel or to connect with your own experience. The pain of depression can drive you to avoid any internal reflection or connection to your emotional life. By compulsively keeping busy, you can block your painful emotions and troubling thoughts.

Because compulsive overactivity can look like the opposite of depression, it may be nearly impossible for others to detect the undercurrent of sadness. Because overactivity is so highly valued in our culture, it is often rewarded. The rewards of workaholism are obvious.

The more you work, the more income you may earn or the more praise you may receive. The more rewards you accumulate from compulsive overactivity, the more difficult it becomes for you to make any contact with your underlying depression, and the farther you get from your real values and interests. People who have a masked depression often have only superficial relationships and no real intimacy in their lives.

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