Sasha Skochileno is a 24-year-old and, in her own words, “a little bit of an artist”. She decide to create a comic book to share her personal experience with depression and help explain all the little difficulties sufferers face.
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This is Sasha.
Sasha enjoys the sunshine.
But sometimes Sasha can’t get out of bed in the morning.
Deep down, Sasha knows life has meaning.
Everything seems grey and horrible.
Sasha doesn’t want to talk to anyone.
And that’s not the worst thing…
So why do people get depression?
It takes away your willpower.
Because Sasha feeling like herself…
…isn’t like Sasha when she’s depressed.
But others don’t see the weights.
This doesn’t make Sasha feel any better.
And everything becomes really, really hard.
“You’re just being lazy!”
“Get over it!”
“There are so many people worse off than you.”
So if you want to help someone with depression…
Also you could…
Exciting!
Oh.
But here’s what helped Sasha.
She learned to love herself.
And take good care of herself.
Do things she didn’t have time for.
And now…
You can read the whole book on the A Book About Depression website.