Depression can get it's hooks in you and drag you to a level where you don't know your ass from your elbow...and it can happen in an instant. People who don't understand that need to be aware of it at least if for nothing else knowing how to react if someone they love is going through such a time.

Depression doesn't just attack the weak, it attacks people who assume they are strong, it attacks people who ARE strong, people with friends, people without friends, it doesn't discriminate.

Imagine the saddest you have ever been, turn that up a few hundred notches, and then heap on some anxiety and then put things just enough out of sync to where you have more arguments, more misunderstandings, you can't sleep, you have no energy, you can't focus, your mind races.....and to know that you may never come out of that state......it'll break you if you let it.

People can describe the feeling different ways, it's like drowning, it's like being crushed, it's like having a bad premonition that you can't stop...imagine your brain reenacting the throws of death an antelope goes through as a cheetah suffocates it or a crocodile drags it into the river.....those few seconds of struggle, panic, fear....that's what can run through someone's brain for days, weeks, months at a time.

It's not pleasant for those suffering with it, nor for those around that person....suicide is selfish, but think about the pain one has to go through to push them to that extreme...it's anguish