Depression makes you look like a jerk.

At times, being depressed can feel completely and utterly debilitating. It makes you cancel plans that you thought you were looking forward to. Your friends get excited because they think that they're going to get to finally see you, until you come up with yet another last minute excuse.

Your friends begin to think that you don't care about them anymore.

Depression makes you never want to leave the house, like the walls that surround you are the only shields of safety in the world; the only place where nobody really expects anything out of you.

Before the depression took over, you were constantly invited to do things, like go to parties or even just the mall and go shopping. While the illness progresses, you continue to decline and, eventually, you are no longer invited to anything because of the isolation you trap yourself inside of.

You seem like you're being rude when you don't communicate at family gatherings, but what people don't realize is that when you open your mouth to speak, you become self-conscious that nothing will come out the way that you intended.

Depression makes you push away the people who care the most. You cut these people out of your life because you feel like everyone is eventually going to leave, so what is the point of letting people in?

It makes your significant other feel like they are doing everything wrong. The cancelled dates and I'm not feeling well's, make you look as though you don't want them around, when, in reality, you probably need them there the most.

You feel like everybody is giving up on you.

If somebody you know or love is going through depression, please show them that you haven't given up on them, even if they believe you have.

Please, support and guide them to help so they don't live their lives feeling like they're not good enough; like they're never going to be good enough.

Show them they are not alone. Show them they are not a jerk.

If you or a friend shows signs of depression, or are considering suicide call 1-800-273-8255 and please, take care of somebody.