“From since I was a little girl, I always know myself to be depressed. If somebody yelled at me, I cried. People noticed and the children preyed on me so that they could laugh at me. That is how I grow up and now I am trying to get rid of it, but it has been a hard and long journey.” The speaker is a 21-year-old woman.
“From childhood I was always be reserved, overly emotional about everything, was not close to my family…,” she continued.
She reached out to this newspaper after making a video chronicling part of her journey with depression. I responded and she immediately agreed to speak to me but after listening to her, we both decided that even though she has made a video, for this piece, she will be anonymous.
