They say that depression is a disease. That it is bad and that it can be cured with pills and treatment. They’re wrong. Depression is not a disease it is a state of mind. You don’t catch depression. You don’t contract depression. You become depressed. You think that nothing is good. You think that nothing is worth living for. You THINK. Pills don’t make the depression go away. They simply make you temporarily forget that you are depressed. They just temporarily make you happy. They don’t cure your depression. They push it to the back burner. You don’t cure depression. You overcome it. It doesn’t take pills. It takes strength of will and determination. Sometimes you never truly escape depression. Sometimes you simply convince yourself to be happy. Sometimes you just refuse to see the bad side of life. Sometimes you just choose to live a sheltered life. But a sheltered life is not the way to live. Sheltered living is half living. You aren’t truly alive you are simply existing. You aren’t enjoying life, you’re surviving it. Sad but true. Pathetic, yet it is the truth.