Music: Ilya Salnikov
-I'm someone who struggles intensely with depression.
-Doesn't really know what that means,that might surprise them to hear
Because there's this pretty popular misconceptionĀ that depression is just being sad.
When something in your life goes wrong
When you break up with your girlfriend
When you lose a loved one
When you don't get the job you wanted
But that's sadness.
That's a natural thing.That's a natural human emotion.
Real depression isn't being sadĀ when something in your life goes wrong
Real depression is being sadĀ when everything in your life is going right.
-The seriousness of it is this:
every 30 seconds, every 30 seconds, somewhere, someone in the world takes their own life because of depression
And it might be two blocks away,it might be two countries away, it might be two continents away.
But it's happening, and it's happening every single day.
And we have a tendency, as a society, to look at that and go, "So what?"
"That's your problem. That's their problem."
We say we're sad and we say we're sorry
But we also say, "So what?"
Well, two years ago two years ago it was my problem
Because I sat on the edge of my bed where I'd sat a million times before and I was suicidal.
-So I sat there that night beside a bottle of pills with a pen and paper in my hand
And I thought about taking my own life and I came this close to doing it.
And I didn't, so that makes me one of the lucky ones
One of the people who gets to step out on the ledge and look down but not jump
One of the lucky ones who survives.
Well, I survived, and that just leaves me with my story
And my story is this: In four simple words, I suffer from depression.
I suffer from depression.
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