What people don't understand about depression is how much it hurts. It's like your brain is convinced that it's dying and produces an acid that eats away at you from the inside, until all that's less is a scary hollowness. Your mind fills with dark thoughts; you become convinced that your friends secretly hate you, you're worthless, and then there's no hope. I never got so low as to consider ending it all, but I understand how that can happen to some people. Depression simply hurts too much. Tyler Hamilton
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Depression is a serious mental health condition that can cause some people to feel very sad and down. Depression is different from sadness though. Depression is not just feeling depressed or sad for a moment or two, it is a long-term mood disorder that causes some people to feel sad and down for many months or years at a time. Although depression can be caused by many things, it often runs in families. Even if your family does not have depression, you may be more likely to suffer from depression than someone who does not have a family history of the condition.

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