Depression

Did you know that depression is an illness? It is common but could be very serious for some. Depression can cause someone to lose lack of interest in many things. Having depression can keep people from doing what they love to do and keep them from hanging out with friends. People who have depression can have a crazy eating and sleeping schedule. Having depression can be bad because some may not know you deal with depression and think that you are just being rude, but you are depressed. Most people can be depressed when they lose one of their most important family members and then the family just floats apart. Some who have depression can end up doing suicide. I had a friend that was very active in sports and absolutely loved his niece and nephew. He was on my high school cheer team and was able to travel to Walt Disney World with us to compete for High School Nationals even though he had a torn ACL, but still competed. He was bullied at school and at sports practices, but we tried our best to do whatever to make sure nothing goes wrong. One day in March, something happened, and his sister and brother-in-law came home and found him. I can remember that day very well when I found out about it. They made all the cheerleaders meet at a coach’s house to grieve together and share memories. It felt like it was hard on me because my dad is a paramedic and he just so happened to be working that day. He said he recognized the boy but didn’t know where he knew him from until he happened to look at an envelope on the table. To this day we always have a one-year memorable for him. I keep in touch with his sister, niece, and nephews. His sister had found out she was pregnant just a couple days after he passed, so in memory of him his sister made the nephews have the first name of her brother as his middle name.