Depression is a form of suffering that can't be reduced to one universal cause. This means that family and friends can't rush in with THE answer. Like most forms of suffering, it feels private and isolated.
When your emotions feel muted or always low, when you are unable to experience highs and lows you once did, the important questions is, 'Where do you turn - or, to whom do you turn - when you are depressed?'
Suffering is not a journey we should take alone. There are too many places where we are tempted to give up and too many times we can't see clearly.
(from Ch 1 of Depression - A Stubborn Darkness by Welch)
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