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xmlns:fb='https://www.facebook.com/2008/fbml'> On a mission to
strengthen Homes and Families  Sunday, December 8, 2013
Depression... Can you really compare it to the flu?  Recently I
saw a comic on Facebook. It was comparing the flu to depression.
I found this off to be honest. Basically the message was that
just as you get sick with the flu you can not tell it to go
away, or that you can not make yourself get better. While it
seems to be a nice message, and one I believed for many years, I
don't agree 100%. Before I go farther please know that this is
coming from someone who has been severely depressed at different
times in my life. I understand how it feels, the literal aches
and pains that come with it, and above all the feeling of being
helpless to it, and to my surroundings. It does creep b