feeling blue Depression is a terrible disease which every year affects million people all over the world. Very often the sicks have to face the problem all by themselves. That is mostly due to the difficulty to share their condition with other human beings and being helped, because depression is commonly undervalued from healthy people as an attitude of the person to feel sorry for himself, or to be lazy, rather than something that has to be taken seriously, and the person who share his state is judged or receives not empathetic comments so just decides to take his stuff for himself. Sometimes mental illness is just scary and misunderstood from others, so the sick person is pushed away from his friends or colleagues, or worse, from his partner. When someone is depressed he cannot just do the same things he did before, even if they appear to be funny or easy things, because the sense of pleasure and the feeling of meaning and purpose of those things disappears. Even making love can be perceived as undesirable, or eating, or just having a shower, so that depression, when not treated, can turn into chronic disease and easily can lead people to lose their job, their family or worse. It's a fact that the percentage of suicides increases a lot among depressed people. Fortunately in the last decades depression diagnosis has constantly grown up and science has provided more accurate medications for this disease, so that more people receive the appropriate cures before it's too late. I think that much more can be done on the field of prevention of mental illnesses, not just depression, since from the schools and work places, providing people emotional and mental skill to face their problems when they find any, and psychological support in case of need, because many situations can be managed easily if symptoms are recognized quickly, and they become severe only later, if ignored and lived all alone. People should receive informations about mental illness but also about dealing with sick familiars or friends, because this situation can occur to everyone.