{"id":3122,"date":"2021-06-02T03:39:00","date_gmt":"2021-06-02T03:39:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/?p=3122"},"modified":"2026-10-02T01:35:01","modified_gmt":"2026-10-02T01:35:01","slug":"quick-question-with-no-easy-answer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/?p=3122","title":{"rendered":"QUICK QUESTION &#8211; WITH NO EASY ANSWER"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I am currently several weeks (or months?) into an extended funk. How does one know the difference between a funk and something more serious, like depression?\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">All I know is that I don&#8217;t feel like myself. And I feel like I have to exert effort to avoid sucking the joy out of anybody I am around. (And sometimes I fail.)<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I am trying to figure out if this is circumstantial and temporary or if something got busted inside me.<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I&#8217;m sincerely hoping it is just circumstantial.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am currently several weeks (or months?) into an extended funk. How does one know the difference between a funk and something more serious, like depression?\u00a0 All I know is that I don&#8217;t feel like myself. And I feel like I have to exert effort to avoid sucking the joy out of anybody I am [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3122","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3122","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3122"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3122\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3123,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3122\/revisions\/3123"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3122"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3122"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3122"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}