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HerOdyssey said:
I'm sure you've heard this a million times, but if your friends abandon you, then they were not your friends.

Depression is horrible, but it is part of who you are, like it or not. It doesn't make you a burden, or a bad person, it makes you a person with depression.

The ones that matter will stick by you, and love you for who you are.

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It has really helped me to matter that depression is an illness and people aren't bad for getting cancer or diabete or any other disease, including this one.