I just read a post from Sabrina (@steemityourway) about how she lost friends when she was suffering from depression. It's very sad that people have to experience such things and so brave of Sabrina to share her story and fight the mental health stigma.
She mentioned a very interesting thing in her post. To quote her:
"Society does not understand depression because it's hard to imagine... They don't understand depression because they don't want to."
Because I've been working on improving mental health and fighting the stigma for a few years now, that made me think. I believe that society doesn't want to understand depression (and other mental illnesses) because there are really scared of the stereotypes and myths linked to it. Such as depressed or bipolar people are crazy and insane. It's so not true. The mighty has a great explainer video about what's the difference between sadness and depression. Watch it (it's 1 minute long) and you will understand that being depressed doesn't mean insane, but also that it is a real thing.
If you recognized yourself in the person that is depressed in the video, don't worry. Reach out to someone, even to me. Don't worry to speak about it. I've noticed that most people felt relieved when I brought up the topic of mental health and they shared at least a little bit of their concerns.