Better Days with Depression Lyrics

Hi my name is Kevin

I'm gonna ask you some questions that will be difficult to answer

It's hard enough already but hopefully these answers can help people so they won't feel alone

The first question is what is your name

The second will be what depression is to you

The third how you cope

My name is Hannah Overstake

My name is Victor Andrade

Hi I'm Samantha Walpole

Hi my name is Kyle

And I work as a mental health therapist

To me depression is a tricky thing

It presents differently and different people

Depression is like being dead on the inside but physically alive

Depression to me is feeling lack of respect and nothing you do will matter to anybody

Depression to me has been one of the worst roller coaster in my entire life

I see depression like a big dark cloud overhead depression feels lonely it feels helpless and hopeless

Like there's no end in sight

You still feel everything but you don't want too

Some days you know I wake with energy to do everything

And then the next all the sudden that energy is gone

You would rather be numb or even worse dead

Depression is isolating the idea to getting up to work or to see friends or just to get cereal is extremely Overwhelming the amount of effort it takes for these seemingly simple tasks

Require a monumental effort from Someone suffering with depression

Some days I just get inside my own head thinking

That I'm not good enough uh I feel like haha you know like

There's another Kyle in my head trying to bring me down

And tell me I'm worthless and it's one of the worst

Feelings in the world and I know I'm not alone everyone goes through this

Depression is like trying to walk up a steep hill while your legs and feet keep turning into sand

With every step that you take

Coping with depression takes excessive work and a strong will in believing that things do get better

I cope with this by keeping my mind busy with something or someone, big examples are

My car and the people I care for

But you just gotta keep on going and keep up with the good vibrations

Cause what you do will matter and you can Change somebody's life just by being you

I just know that one day together we can all get through

Whatever we're going through, you know life's too

Precious to let go, you gotta hold on and fight for each other

Self care is something that has been pushed under the rug in this culture

Mental has been twisted and molded into Beliefs that people are weak

I can't feel anything if I'm too busy with something or someone else

That's that's the beauty of it all but the sad truth is

When you're in that stage when you're in your head you

Feel the Most alone and it's scary there's no way out of it at least that's what you know, you think

We live in a "pull yourself up by the bootstraps kid" type of society

But there is a way out it and together we'll find a way out of it

There's always a rainbow on the other side life will always get better

I believe that decreasing the stigma of mental health is going to be one of the most important things

We need to Start talking, we need to not be afraid to ask for help when we need it

And most importantly we need to have Patience with ourselves

We need to have faith that we will come out on the other side of this