Depression will not stay with you forever.

Water: you cannot live without it, yet it can also kill you.

That is what depression feels like.

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Joseph Strauch

It will scream at you, it will laugh in your face.

Depression will come and go as it pleases.

It will not discriminate against age or ethnicity, race or religion.

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It does not care who you are, where you have been or where you are going.

It simply wants to be heard.

I was so ashamed of how strange I felt for so long.

To feel deeply sad is not ugly, after all.

Depression is not ugly.

And at the end of the day, we are all human.

Depression can snuff out your flames with one breath.

You will begin to see how all that is bad has a flipside that is good.

That every moment you felt broken down was preparing you to build something better.

Shadows grow in the corners we are ignoring, highlighting the spaces that need the most sun.

hey, do not give up hope.

Depression will not stay with you forever.