I can attest that it is real and it can affect everything in your life. Mine has affected me since I was 12 and has been a daily struggle every day since.
Now don't get me wrong it's not a everyday I want to die as most depressed people feel things differently day to day, moment to moment, comment to comment.
Each one of us find a way to handle it, some do drugs or drink, while others sex or shopping, and even others with people and places, and there are those who self harm, or do anything to feel pain besides the pain they feel inside.
However there are many who as some say take the "chickens way out" and do kill themselves. There is no chickens way out to it. It takes a great deal of inner strength to fight the struggle not to end it all.
When someone who lives with depression trusts you enough to share with you that they have it and share their thoughts don't just dismiss them. To be honest each time we hear oh get over it or you'll never do it we are given more cause to do it. The way our minds work if those that we love and care for are so dismissive of our feelings why should we fight to stay on this earth.
I myself have attempted to end it more than once and have spent time being "evaluated". I learned through those experiences that everyone believes that a pill will help with it all. I have been on multiple medications however I can't handle being on a medication that completely removes all emotions. I have had many fellow depressed people say the same thing. When you live with every emotion on a daily basis the lack of emotions can be just as frustrating and can and has led to their giving up and ending it.
So the next time you get lucky enough to be the one who we trust with our feelings don't just dismiss us. You may be the one we need to help convince us that we belong here. 1
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