Depression

Depression

It can change someone's whole world

You don't get to choose your life

But you can choose how to live it

If you choose to live

Depression

It causes you to feel hopeless

To feel useless

Most people have no idea how it feels

Like you're worthless, you're never enough, and never be good enough

You hate yourself more than anything else

People say you just want attention

Yeah, that can be true, but not in the way you think

They want attention because they are tired of being ignored

Some of the time it's the opposite

And they get too much negative attention

Cutting

They take that razor, knife, scissors, what was once only used for sharpening pencils

And they drag it across their skin to feel something

They need to force themselves to feel something

Because from all the abuse

Whether it be physical, verbal, mental that they suffer

Their emotions are brain dead and have to now be forced

They need some way to relieve

Let their pain and sorrow be released with their blood

They can't say anything back

 Because it will just make it worse

Suicide

All the little things you do affect a person's life

Someone can be depressed

They are so close to the edge

Waiting for one final excuse to jump

So that one lie, that one tease, that one shove

Can send someone into the dark abyss

After that, there is no saving them

They think that if they were to die no one would notice

No one would care

They would die believing a lie

So stop

Stop  going against basic human morals

Stop using excuses

And start changing your actions

The actions that you once had to make an excuse to cover for

And begin to think

Think about what you do and how it affects others

Quit sending people over the edge

Sending them into a deeper hell that they already live

Cure

You can try to save them but sometimes they are too far gone

People and doctors pretend they understand

They say "just be happy", but sometimes happy is out of reach

They make them take these pills called anti-depressants

But how is a pill supposed to cure  a mental state

But on occasion there is still hope

Try being helpful

Stop telling them to "not be sad"

To just be happy

To communicate their emotions

Tell them something they don't already know

Convince them that there is still hope and that you are willing to listen 

Willing to be our hope

Depression, it can change someone's whole world