I think Natasha is right. And you don't need to fight on your own. There is therapy maybe, there are groups of people with depression on- and offline. It's important to find your own way. Step by step. Don't give up. My english is not good enough to find the words I am looking for. Nevertheless feel free to contact me if you like. I wish you the strength to find that ray of light that will lead you out of the darkness.

I'm so sorry that you and the people who've upvoted your comment feel this way. It is hard to talk about depression because nobody really understands it unless they've been through it. But I think the author of this comic was trying to give people hope and raise awareness about how easy it is to overlook a condition like this. Because maybe after people read this, you'll find that there are lots of people who are newly aware of depression and who do care and want to try their best to help you.

Having family and friends doesn't necessarily help either. None of the people close to me understand my anxiety and depression at all, and mostly act as if I don't want to get better. I force myself more and more to pretend I'm okay *because* of them and how I don't want to lose the few people I still have. If I get caught having a panic attack instead of patience I just get told how I'm overreacting and making drama and to stop making people worried acting as if something really serious actually happened when it hasn't. No matter how much I try to explain nobody gets the simple fact that what constitutes a desperate situation for me is not the same as for them.

I have been there, truly barely getting out of bed! My family has always pretended everything was perfect despite obvious problems so not much of a resource. I finally got therapy and there are tons of things on YouTube. PsychoCybernitics by Maxwell Maltz changed everything. It's also an audio book on YouTube free therapy! I hope this post helps, the universe always provides if we ask it!

So true :(

who cares about others help, they won't understand your pain anyway, stay positive about yourselves. doing what's most important, not letting all the c**p running through your mind and make you even more depress. I suffered depression and anxiety as a teen from abusive, abnormal sister in-law, It took me probably 5 years (im 33), and nothing can hurt me now. I've been through a lot lot lot. so fight it. don't let it control you, be strong and be positive.

I do understand how you feel. My dad and I both suffer from depression, but my mom only cares for him. My friends tend to forget I'm here.

It's great that you wanted to help, but try to consider people perceive things differently, specially when one is depressed, so you thought was helping him might actually be making him feel worse and he didn't know how to deal with it or explain it to you. My family and friends have often tried to help me with encouragement and all, but for a depressed person, it tends to sound as just pressure and alienation. It just makes you feel like it should be easy to just feel better but you can't, and you feel guilty and more isolated because people don't get it and act as if you want to be in that state. Eventually we either just start pretending we're better around others or, if we can't do that either, just stop being around others at all (probably what happened to you friend)

You have us.

Maybe try to reconsider what is it that you're doing to help. What feels like help to one can feel like just a burden to another. For example: some people consider jealously to be a sign of love, others see it as controlling and possessive and a sign of lack of trust. If you want to help someone you have to consider what do they want/need not what you would want them to do to you... you're different people with different views.

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Do you feel the pain of others, you self-centred prick?