Depression has a way of tricking even the happiest of people into thinking that life isn’t worth experiencing. Their energy is evaporated, what once was pleasurable is now less-than appealing and the physical symptom are completely taxing.
Sounds pretty terrible, right?
While many people consider mental illness in the abstract — an affliction outside the realm of possibility in their own lives — the sad reality is that these disorders are distressingly common.
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