It falls to the survivors of depression to talk to the sufferers — to convince them to ask for help.

https://popehat.substack.com/p/the-weight-of-the-unspoken-word

The Weight Of The Unspoken Word

Talking Carefully About Suicide Is Good. Avoiding The Subject Isn’t.

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@Popehat I've went through it as well and as you say, the difference is night and day

the most nefarious thing about it in my opinion was that it made me identify with it - that is the big lie you wrote so eloquently about. depression was the intruder, the rest of me was what is real