[Text] What I learned from my depression and how I overcame it.

Me too man. Fucking everyone gets depressed at times but there's a difference between that and psychologically crippling illness. I go to the gym and when Im done I don't feel good, I feel depressed. I see people I love, make jokes, hang out, and even when I'm with them I just feel like I shouldn't be around. I do good work at my job just lIke everyone else but when they smile and make jokes I feel bad because my smIle is fake and my jokes are too. I dont ever feel genuinely happy anymore. I don't tell anyone because I what's the point? The only reason I'm even writing this is because I know that people see shit like this post on the Internet and think depression is just a symptom of stayang inside for too long or not exercising enough or whatever bullshit they want to think. But it's not. There are people around us every day who seem normal but they're struggling, and I've lost friends because nobody even noticed, including me. I just people would stop thinking about it like the cold or flu, where you can do one thing to make it all better.

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