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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Vyper" data-source="post: 1368999" data-attributes="member: 14683">A thread about depression ... today of all days ...Last night in the hospital I had to watch my great-grandmother die. It was the first time that I saw such a thing. The heartbeat getting slower and slower, the desperate last gasps, flatline.Only hours after this horrible experience, I found out that my girl-friend is about to break up with me.Now it's Friday, 13th, early in the morning. I have lost two of the most beloved persons in my life and cannot remember when I ever felt so empty and depressed and weak.But you know what: I will not let this get me down! I lost so much in the last 12 hours, that I can't stop crying, but I know that for every loss there will be a win. I always viewed life as a fight, a challenge. I have gone through bad times before (though I never was hit so hard in such a short time), and everytime, when it was over, I felt stronger than before.If you're depressed it's (partially, at least) your own fault. Because it's so easy to overlook the good things in life. It's hard to get up again, but it's never impossible. Actually it takes less strength than you think.I just covered up the photo of my (ex-)girlfriend. She wasn't that good, anyway.And about my great-grandmom: Well, I'm forcing myself to look at the window of the neighbour house she lived in and from where she always greeted me in the morning when I went to work. Because actually, the house hasn't changed. Few things have changed, to be true. This was the first thing I thought when I woke up (after not much sleep): My life has been shaken, but the world hasn't changed. Nearly all the good things that ever made me happy are still there - plus a lot more that I only haven't discovered yet. My friends are still the same people. It's still the same town, the same street, the same house. Only that one person less is living in it.</blockquote>

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