Depression & anxiety, suffered from it for many years now, although the last few years have been the most difficult for reasons I won't obviously be putting in the public domain.
From my experience not many people are that understanding. Many are quite selfish and you soon find out who your true friends are. They're usually the ones who aren't just around when it's all lardy dar. The rest don't want you to bring them down and ignore you and then soon pop up when you appear to be okish for a while.
My way of combating it was to spend silly amounts on cars. That's got boring though. Currently doing a diploma in marketing to keep me out of mischief.
I think the problem with it is, is people don't necessarily want to understand it because unless it directly effects them most people don't really care because their lives are so wonderful they can't understand how it can exist other than in your head. In other words ignorance.
You just have to keep plugging away and try to be positive, and see the positive in things. Anti depressants didn't work for me, in fact all they made me feel was worse because they did my brain in, numbed me from caring so much so it ended up making other parts of my life erode.
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