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[quote="Helloraspberries1"] Thank you for understanding. It does feel better to know that someone out there can relate and doesn't think I'm overly sensitive or playing victim. It sucks that people just don't care what we go through or about mental illness at all. They will only care if it...

I have been suffering with severe depression for about 3 years now. It took About a year to open up about it to my parents and even those who I thought to be my closest friends. Back then I was at my rock bottom stage, failing tests for the first time in my life. Felt worthless. Unmotivated. Guilty....