The thing with depression & anxiety is it's like drowning, most people don't realize what's happening until it's too late.
From the shore a person rarely looks like they're drowning. There's almost never any screaming or arms thrashing about. They look like they're swimming. They go under but then fight their way to the top and come up for air occasionally. Then they sink back down under the water until there's no more strength to fight their way back up and too often no one notices until it's too late to swim out and save them or throw them a life preserver. And that's the real tragedy of it. Not only that someone quietly leaves this world but that no one notices. Everyone assumes they're fine because they don't or can't call out for help and then until it's too late. Depression and anxiety are much the same. They are all consuming. The person fighting is often spending so much time and energy just trying to survive that they can't or don't know how to ask for help and so they fight until they can't anymore and then they disappear under the water and people stand around surprised, wondering how? What? Why?
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