12 Things Girls With Depression Wish Our Friends Knew | NAMI: National Alliance on Mental Illness

12 Things Girls With Depression Wish Our Friends Knew

Posted on June 7, 2016

Honest adviced from those who know. #1 is don't say that a person's life isn't really bad; it only  trivializes a medical illness. #7 is also important: don't romanticize the illness by claiming it's cool because so many creative actors, artists and writers have it.

 

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