Originally Posted by RESiNATE
When I was younger, I didn't really understand about depression - I just thought that it was as much about attention seeking, as it was about emotional content.
Yet, during the past 4 years, or so, I have come to understand more about depression and how it controls a person's life.
I am depressed at the moment - so fucking depressed...
It's not always as simple as 'picking yourself up and dusting yourself off', sometimes it goes far and beyond that simplicity. It can turn you into an entirely different person to how you used to be - after a while, one forgets how one used to be...
It eats away at you, steadily destroying the essence of your character - and it becomes very difficult to claw your way back out of the hole.
Sure, you can look around and see people in a far worse senario than yours - but are we to take pleasure from that? Seems rather heartless to me, and yet, that's what people will say...
Some people feel honour-bound to struggle on with life - maybe they've got kids, and they use them as an anchor.
Depression is a personal thing - it affects people in different ways.
We live in a time where depression affects so many people that it is almost epidemic - and yet, few people think to ask themselves why...they'd rather pump the sufferer full of prozac and send them on their way.