Depression is a very common mental illness. Overcoming is rare. It is very possible though. This is Sam's story of how she conquered it all.
Sophomore year my parents started to split up and my sister was leaving for college soon and I was left to deal with it by myself. Depression runs in my family and I became really depressed and I didn't tell anyone for about a year. I didn't go to my family because I thought me needing help would only burden them with money which would only make me feel worse. I just wanted an escape... I wanted to be happy even if his for a moment. I started cutting myself because I thought "if I cut myself it will distract me from my real problems. I'll be more focused on this than what's really going on" I cut my wrists and the inside of my thighs and my parents never knew. Then I started getting into drinking and drugs. I would get so high and drunk by myself just so I could feel happy for a little bit. I would go to dinner with my family stoned out of my mind and I would show up at school hung over. I was always getting high and I started selling my adderall pills. It was so bad. I have a journal that I wrote everything in and my mom found it and found out everything I had been up to but the journal never mentioned that I was depressed. In a way it was a blessing in disguise. Because when she confronted me about it i finally broke down to her about my depression and about harming myself and I started going to therapy and got antidepressants. Two years later I'm off my meds and don't need therapy anymore. Recovery is possible.
Sam 17 years old
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