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What Depression is REALLY like


As you walk toward the light

 At the end of the tunnel

 It gets smaller. 

And so you are running, 

Running like the mad woman you are

 Trying to get there before it's gone. 

But it's too late.

The light is gone. 

You are left walking in the darkness, 

Not sure where you are going, 

Constantly running into walls 

Because you cannot tell where they are. 

The silence is crushing,

You feel claustrophobic,

You cannot breathe.

You have scrapes on your body,

But you can't even tell how deep they are

In this darkness.

So you give up. 

Bruised and bleeding,

 you lay down on the concrete floor

 with the rats and the centipedes and give up. 

Your fight is already lost. 

Your only consolation 

Is knowing that eventually

 The end will come, 

And when it does

 It will bring the light.

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