YES!! I love this! We absolutely need to start prioritizing mental health! I feel you on this wholeheartedly! I have also suffered from depression and anxiety. I see a therapist every week and I am actually in recovery from substance abuse disorder. I actually just celebrated two years clean. I will be sharing on Saturday for it. I will speak a lot about addiction and mental health and the stigma surrounding them.

Getting help is brave! I cannot wait until the world drops the stigma with mental health and starts prioritizing it. It is so important for us to do this.

I especially love you brought up the "death is worse than depression" argument. That argument is ridiculous. I love your defense as well: if death was worse than depression, why do people choose death over it?

Keep writing! You have an amazing voice and the world needs to hear more writing like this! So much focus is given to unimportant things in the writing world... issues such as this are left in the shadows. This needs to be heard!!!

Thank you!!

William Kosko