Source: providencejournal.com
I’ve had this article in my archives for a while now (click above for link). Shanley offers a great primary source of living with depression. Also, mental health’s place in greater society.
“Mental health has a bad PR firm. It only seems to be on our radar when a well-known individual speaks to it, either in life or death, or when there is a mass killing. Suicide is a word rarely spoken, and if so, only in whispers in back rooms. Some of us know people who have stood on a bridge. Some walked down. Others did not.”