If you are here, you have made a tough step. It shows you are considering reaching out for help and that is a hard thing to do for most. It involves a willingness to be vulnerable, to expose what may be hidden within you to another, and maybe you have never done that before. 

 

It can feel like the most challenging option, and it can leave you feeling a little sick in the stomach and yet this is part of what courage feels like. When we choose to move through that sick feeling instead of letting it tell us what to do.

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In the way you chose to come to this webpage you can choose to follow the hero's path and fight depression. All that is required is a dash of courage and a dash of courage is part of what brought you here. Some desperation and fear perhaps, but courage is there as well. Though we may wish otherwise, courage is often born from desperation and fear.

 

So you are here, and you may be thinking the depression is on you. I call it 'the depression' to make a distinction between you and it. Depression is not something that defines you. It is something that happens to you. 

It is not your fault. And that can be a good thing to realise. But that realisation has its cost, as they do sometimes.

 

It comes with the understanding that it is our responsibility to get help when we need it. For some asking for help looks and feels like weakness, and yet the opposite is true. 

It is the beginning of courage, and it is beginning of responsibility. To ourselves, and to those around us.

 

I know it can feel like heavy weight on your chest that tells you to isolate yourself. I know you just want to hide it, hide from it, hide it from everyone. I know the lies it tells you. 

I know how the numbness can set in and stop you in your tracks. I know it can feel like there is no hope. I know. 

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You are not alone.

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There is hope.

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We can fight it together.

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What comes next is up to you.

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I'm here.