You know, depression has been around for a long time. Some people say that great historical figures like Edgar Allen Poe and Vincent van Gogh suffered from extreme fits of depression in their lives. Many times one can find evidence of that in the works of both of them. Depression is a state of extreme sadness that gets so bad on a person that it begins to interrupt their livelihoods, their family life, and all of their social functioning altogether. A person with depression usually has extreme feelings of sadness and dejection that don’t just go away. Depression can make a person feel tired, unmotivated, and apathetic. Some people get their regular feelings of being depressed mixed up with what doctors would call clinical depression. In clinical depression a person can get so bogged down in their negative feelings that it could actually lead to substance abuse. At times, depression can even make its victims contemplate unthinkable things like suicide. That’s how it happened for Vincent van Gogh and that’s actually how it happened for my brother. I wish that we had gotten more information about depression instead of thinking that it would just go away. Maybe if we had my little bro would still be around today.

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