Titles Are Not Names, They're Stamps

   Recently I was told that the name "A Clinically Depressed Author" was me just crying out for attention. Trying to be noticed. Being needy.

No.

   I was given that title by another, and I found it amusing. It shows the self-mocking side of myself, yet speaks a hard truth at the same time. 

"You haven't even published anything, you can't call yourself an author."

That's also not entirely true, although I am not published, I write stories to myself. I read them, I am my own fan. If you read something written by another, you are reading the author's work. But I'm the reader. Yes. I am a different person when I write and when I read. Therefor, I am not that person, I'm the other person, in which ever order. 

Truly,

a clinically depressed author