When I was first diagnosed with depression at the age of sixteen the hardest thing for me to do was to except it. I had to face the facts that unintentionally I received depression hereditarily from my mother, who dealt with depression practically all her life. Most of the time when I went to see my psychiatrist and my psychologist I felt the need to hide my true feelings by being phony and not giving doctors all the truth about how I was feeling. I didn't want to let them in my head too much becau

se I thought they would think I was crazy. The only thing that I could possibly do besides getting on and off of anti-depressants and sleeping pills was to crutch on drugs and alcohol. Every weekend when I told my mother I was spending the night over my best friend's house and we weren't going anywhere, we both would actually go drink and smoke with her cousin and her cousin's friends.

Although going through depression was hard and build up a lot of anxiety in me conclusively it was a learning experience. I went through trial after trial, and tribulation after tribulation but still came out on top of things and glorifying the lord. I honestly can say that I never that I would make it sometimes I hoped to die but as long as God was my strength and light would and always will survive. I believe that bad things can turn good, and the goodnes

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