Depression. Some people read this word and think of some of their friends and loved ones . Others read this word and think of themselves. The depiction of depression is different for everyone, but in a way, we are all going through the same thing. We are all connected. Depression can feel like a black cloud that is hanging over your head 24/7 and never goes away, forcing you to glue on a fake smile and pretend that everything is "just dandy." For some, it's like a giant thousand-pound weight laying on your chest and shoulders, making it feel like you are constantly suffocating, and forcing you to hang out with the people you call your "friends" but you actually don't like. For others, it just makes you feel unimportant and not loved. It can make you feel like a side effect of what used to be a genuine friendship/relashionship, just hanging around, feeling like a burden. Depression is  disease. It can eat away at a person just as any other disease can. It can leave them for dead. Though, for the worst of these cases, they have a mixture of everything above . It is also a possible gateway disease. It can lead to other ailments such as anorexia, psychological damage, emotional damage, and self esteem issues. Many of us expirience some of these. I'm just here to let you know that we are in this together. It doesn't matter if you have just started free falling in to the deep pit of depression, or if you have been falling for years, what matters is that you will always have someone at the bottom of the pit, waiting to catch you.