Depression

Depression comes in many forms. Even the definition is very broad. In short, it's the crippling sense of the same of the worst you've ever had, perpetually, forever. While it's an illogical state of mind, when you're in it, you really don't see logic, reality, the real world, or anything. You just see your pain and suffering. For a lot of sufferers, it IS a perpetual thing and becomes as ingrained in their psyche as a character trait. Yet, they don't want to find a way out because it's a part of them, they feel, and it rub it out would be to not be themselves. Anyone who is too deep in this hole is probably out of reach and lost forever. But those who want help, and don't want it run their lives, they are worth saving, in ways, better than content folks. It's simple, someone who has gone through that publicly, has a sense of humility about them. Something human, something that will forever keep them tied to reality and not veer off course.

Now, because of the quickness sufferers want "help", drugs and psychiatry are often the first solution. Like a placebo, it covers the wound, but doesn't cure it. Those depressed, chronically as it were, need to look into themselves, find out the root problem and fix it or live with it. For those that don't, they have never spent long nights inside their own mind, hitting all the things that make them them. It's sometimes sad to see those who have such huge amounts of potential fall to this, because of peer pressure, failure to please family, or a failure to live up to a parents' dream. One with no restrictions, such as I, can see it for it is - control. Anyway, it's very important to try to understand the root problem and fix it. Maybe it this can't be achieved by yourself and you might need help.

More than drugs, more than paid counselors, what most just need is someone to care. And it's so goddamn unfortunate that the best people, often fall this way.