When you suffer from severe bouts of depression, medication certainly helps, but you can rarely shut your mind off entirely. When it gets especially bad, your brain tries to convince you that you should kill or hurt yourself. Photo: Getty Images/LaylaBirdWhen you suffer from severe bouts of depression, medication certainly helps, but you can rarely shut your mind off entirely.
When it gets especially bad, your brain tries to convince you that you should kill or hurt yourself – you are useless, you are unlovable, you are a fraud, you are a drain on your family, friends and colleagues.Get 14 days free to read all our investigative and in-depth journalism. Thereafter you will be billed R75 per month. You can cancel anytime and if you cancel within 14 days you won't be billed.