"We, the depressed, in our darkest hours have no energy to move, no reason to live, no will to survive, no hope in a cure, no reason to try. We roam the earth as the living dead wanting only to extinguish that persistent heart that beats, that ceaseless breath that enters, that pain that never relents. Every cell of our being wants to die, yet do we live." (Melody Clark.)

A sustained period of time when one experiences melancholy feelings and negative moods is known as clinical depression. Depression is a mysterious disease. It creeps into people's minds of all ages and race, turning one's hopes and thoughts bleak and gray. When a happy future seems unattainable and life feels as if it is beyond enjoyment, far too many depressed people choose to carry out the unthinkable; take their own lives.

People who feel sad...