[MomtoJasper]

Originally Posted by Wylie's Mom

Wonderful post, and always much needed. It's shocking, but true, that still in this day and age - SO many don't understand depression, what causes it, and what it can mean. He speaks very well about the terrible stigma that still attaches itself to depression.

I'm proud to say I've fought and survived depression pretty much my whole life (even recall it as a young child). I didn't seek help until I was 36 (omg, WHY did I wait so long?)...and I tell ya, I'm grateful I even survived until getting that help.

Depression is a very real, profound, excruciating, and deadly disease. It's *not* a light switch one can turn off...if it was, I would've flipped that dang switch eons ago, trust.

So, stigma? Talk to the hand, bc I refuse you.

I, too, have fought and survived it. But I remember a time when you didn't talk about it or tell anyone. It is a shame in this century that there is still no cure and you can be labeled like you have a horribly contagious disease.