Why Am I Here?

Because statistics show that in 2004, the Philippines had the highest incidence of depression in Southeast Asia, with over 4.5 million reported cases of depression and worldwide, one million people take their lives each year. That's death due to depression every 40 seconds. And still there are so many of us who refuses to see depression as an illness, but rather a sign of weakness.

Because I know that there are many “walking wounded” people like me out there whose cries for help are not being heard and are forced to smile and cheer up, for the sake of not being called overly dramatic narcissistic brats.

Because I have a number of friends whose voices have been drowned by a crowd of condemning narrow-minded people who thinks that being clinically depressed is synonymous to being an overly dramatic narcissistic brat who just needs to get some “perspective”

Because I do not know where the hell I can buy “perspective”, so I'll just choose to blog in the hope that more people will perceive clinical depression from the point of view of someone who is going through it: depression  is a matter of biology, not willpower.