Opening up about being mentally ill

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One of the hardest things about depression is when you feel absolutely horrible for no apparent reason. For someone who has never experienced it, it can be very hard to understand. People are generally used to there being a trigger for feelings. With depression, for me at least, it can feel like the bottom of my world suddenly falls out. No reason, no warning. All I can do is hold on to anything I can to stop myself falling into the abyss. Eventually, it passes, and I return to what passes for "normal" in my life. Sometimes it is literally about sticking it out until the brain can get a grip again.

It's one of those invisible illnesses (I have two more, M.E. and Crohn's disease...) which thoughtless people dismiss as nothing because you don't have a broken arm to wave in their face.