I am lucky in that I have never been depressed in my life, but this is the one thing which has really affected me: the loss of my mother as I knew her.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
It's often difficult for those who are lucky enough to have never experienced what true depression is to imagine a life of complete hopelessness, emptiness and fear.
My own life was filled with so much love and joy that when depression struck, it was like a prison door slamming shut and I was being placed in an isolation cell. No one else could possibly be feeling what I was. I hated my depression and all of its symptoms.
My dad was depressed a lot of the time, and there were a lot of things in his life that he never resolved.
The truth is that several years ago, I suffered from depression. And I remember during this time, I basically fell into this hole where my life became cold, and it became gray, and I lost sight of everything that was important to me.
There's been moments of depression in my life, moments when I was in situations that I thought I wouldn't be able to get out of.
I inherited depression from my mother's side of the family.
I have suffered from depression for most of my life. It is an illness.
I had a lot of depression as a kid.
I've definitely had times in my life where I've been depressed and not able to do anything at all.
I was always depressed growing up. There wasn't a reason for it, I just was. I was sad and morose. I cried a lot, I wrote a lot, and I read a lot; and that was how I dealt with it.