Depression is hard to live with, hard to explain and hard to understand if you’ve never suffered it before.
And until recent years it’s been a subject that’s been ignored at best and shamed at worse.
Which can make finding the right words to talk to someone with depression extremely difficult.
Everyone who has lived with the illness has a unique experience and different ways of coping.
But from my personal experience, these are the things people said to me that really helped:
1. You deserve help
Depression’s a bastard in that when you have it you often… Read the full story