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Tuesday, March 9, 2010

Depression

I'm on a new mission. As a quite long time sufferer from depression, I am no longer happy to read headlines like this one when someone somewhere could make a difference

Tragic death of newsreader: ideal life 'drenched in negativity'

I suffer from the symptoms of depression. Most days, no one would even notice that I exist, let alone that I had passed. We owe it to all the sufferers to get past the stigma and to reach out a helping hand and a smiling face. There is a place in the sun for us all - some of us just need a helping hand to get out of the shadows of the black cloud.

This story sucks: http://www.smh.com.au/nsw/tragic-death-of-newsreader-ideal-life-drenched-in-negativity-20100308-psv3.html

Let's not let it happen again