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" Healing doesn't mean the damage never existed. It means the damage no longer controls our lives." Ahead of the Mental Health Awareness Month, I would like to add a little bit to a conversation that has been doing the rounds on my newsfeed, the ignorance of a very select group of people with regards to the topic of Depression or as they like to put it 'You're just sad.' First of all, never ever TELL a human being what they're feeling. Their emotions and how they are or not feeling is not for you to judge, analyse or conclude. It is their own. Happy, sad, angry, hurt, frustrated or depressed, never ask why or how. That's none of your concern. I'm sure you have enough worries and feelings of your own, so I suggest you focus on that. If they need you to put a label on the shit that they're going through they will ask, don't you think? Second, if you're in a rare situation where a friend musters up all the courage they h...