Have You Ever Had Depression?

What is depression? Why do we get it? It can come on for lots of reasons. 

Grief can bring it on or even having an accident or an illness can bring it on. 
Have you ever suffered from depression?

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Having depression can be a hard thing to overcome. Have you ever suffered so much that it felt like nothing would ever be right again? 
I have watched the new television show on Netflix called 13 Reasons Why, which is about suicide. The show moved me so much that I decided to update this story that I shared in an article some years ago.

Having depression at a young age, or really at any age, is definitely suffering you do not want to go through. I know how it feels to suffer from depression. Someone very close to me had it after he was knocked down by a hit-and-run car. He had some devastating injuries to his face, and now one of his legs is deformed. He felt terrible for two years afterwards, and we didn't know why he was suffering emotionally until he was diagnosed with depression. It took months for him to get a diagnosis because no one took us or him seriously enough. It wasn't until he tried to commit suicide that the doctors finally took it more seriously. We kept on having to plead his case to doctors, which was frustrating for us all.

Today, though, he is on the right medication, and he is stable. He can have his ups and downs here and there, but he is managing and doing things he never thought he would do again. He is living a normal life, but only because we were determined to see him get the help he deserved.
Depression can come in many forms. It can stop you from living a healthy, normal life. This disease can also wreck everyone else around the person who has it. I know, because it happened to me. I became sad and stressed because I was trying so desperately to help him get the help he needed. No one would listen to me or take it seriously, but I was determined not to give up, and in the end, I was heard.

So, do you know anyone who is suffering, feeling down, and lonely? If you do, please get them help immediately. Please, don't give up on them even if they push you away! 
Watch the videos below about depression and suicide signs: 

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