Things not to say to someone with mental illness: Ignore it. Forget about it. Fight it. You are better than this. You are over thinking.

Depression is watching the stopped clock every day but never having courage to fix it.

If you fall for someone with a mental illness know that some days they won't be able to express love, they're too busy trying to breathe.

The two major causes of depression are: a) having a job, and b) not having a job.

You look depressed" Thanks, it's the depression.

Living with depression is like watching people around you breathing but instead your blue lips inhale words of self-hatred and you know you should be able to fill your lungs with fresh oxygen like everyone else but you can't and the worst part is people mistake your chest frantically rising up and down as breathing when really you're suffocating.

WTF is up with people telling depressed people "be happy & you'll be fine"? It's like trying to save a drowning person by asking them to swim.

Will you too leave if I turn into a failure, a version of depression that makes me difficult to love?

There are those who would judge you when you talk about depression openly. Ignore them, they are immature.