tw: depression – knitting in the dark

weaponofwinter:

[casual reminder that bucky’s lack of self care started way before winter soldier—at the bar with steve he had no sense of coordination, he was not clean shaven, mildly unacceptable given the time period, his hair was unkempt, and his uniform was not on properly, which was a BIG no, wherever you went. he was most likely suffering from severe depression and the beginnings of PTSD, sparking his sudden lack in self-care and subtle negative undertones of himself (‘I’m invisible’; ‘a nightmare’), and while this can be attributed to the joke he made, depression first manifests itself in minuscule phrases in every day speech]