Through my own struggles with depression, I discovered that knowledge, therapy, medication and education can provide the strength to get through it in one piece.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Depression taught me the importance of compassion and hard work, and that you can overcome enormous obstacles.
When I struggled with a depressive episode in 2013, I realized that I had a glitch in my thinking about my own motivation. I had separated learning and teaching into different concepts.
I have fought my own battle with depression, and it was important for me to bring a little awareness about it for others.
I had a lot of depression as a kid.
It's like you asked me about the depression thing: you grope towards an understanding of whatever it is your going through, and it's not personal, there are forces in play around you, and you seek to understand them and that way you can go on.
In the Depression especially, I think you learn to face problems and not run away from them.
Getting better from depression demands a lifelong commitment. I've made that commitment for my life's sake and for the sake of those who love me.
I have suffered from depression for most of my life. It is an illness.
I thought depression was the part of my character that made me worthwhile. I thought so little of myself, felt that I had such scant offerings to give to the world, that the one thing that justified my existence at all was my agony.
I can certainly see how people are overcome by depression.
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