When you have been in the dark for so long, the light seems even brighter...

There comes a time when it feels as if your whole life has collapsed from underneath you. You have several choices. People say that you only have two, but that's a lie. You can cope a number of ways, or you can just give up. If you're me, you fake like you are fine and have late nights with band-aids until you fall apart completely. Then, you slowly, oh so slowly, try to build back up. You struggle and crawl, falling back down often. You learn who really cares and who doesn't. You learn a lot about yourself. You learn to value yourself and the people that really care about you. It never goes away. You are stuck with the memories, and they will haunt you. However, that will make you truly appreciate when someone really loves you, when they really treat you right, when they really care and value you. You learn to appreciate yourself. You learn to stop putting up with getting treated wrong. You finally become happy, and you cherish every moment, every memory, and most of the time, you have really great moments. You are as happy as a person with severe depression can be. You even get a little better.