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Verse 1
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If I was 18 now,
I'd never cover up my pain, pain
It is not bravery to hide my tears
in pouring rain, rain
Medicine won't fix it,
all the black clouds win the war
Move your lips and speak up,
it's time to even the score
Depression haunts your life
Depression is a knife that leaves a mark
A metal shark
If I was young again,
I wouldn't play pretend so much
I'd reconnect the dots,
I'd focus on staying in touch,
touch
Medicine's a temporary
fix and nothing more
Talk to someone special
and let all those feelings pour
Depression, what's your line?
Depression is a knife that leaves a mark,
a metal shine
I know it seems like the whole
world is on your back
I know how little things trigger panic attacks
I know how difficult it is
to open up to someone you don't know
Whoa -oh -oh -oh, you'll be fine
Whoa -oh -oh -oh, you'll be fine
Whoa -oh -oh -oh,
you'll be fine if you choose to
Build an army, make it so strong
Make it so strong, make it so strong
Kill the darkness, turn the lights on,
turn the lights on, turn the lights on.
A professor put a transparency
on the overhead
and started unveiling a list.
And I saw myself in those words.
And that was a list
of the symptoms of depression.
So suddenly I've got a vocabulary
from which I can better understand
my life up to that moment.
But unfortunately, it was a vocabulary
I couldn't use
because I was a young male
brought up in a culture that was
taught that if you express emotion,
if you express feeling,
and certainly if you express that
you have depression,
it's an expression of vulnerability,
it's treated as a weakness,
it's treated as a stigma,
and I built up a wall of silence,
and I never used that vocabulary.
You know that wall helped me
over the subsequent 20 years
because I was able to wall off
those cycles of depression
but I could step out in front of that wall
and put on a performance
but there's a point in time
when everything that's going on
behind that wall is gonna break.
Let me tell you what
that bottom feels like
because it's a toxic mess of black.
Your body feels heavy
like you can't breathe.
Your brain feels like it's full of mud
and you're trying to think
of ideas
and express words
and they just won't come.
You're walking through life
and you feel like you want to cry
but you have no idea why.
Now I was able to perform
out in front of that wall
and I performed in front of many of you
and you didn't know what
was going on
with these cycles that I
was at the bottom of.
And I was performing for you
and that performance took
a lot of energy to be on.
I don't know what it was that
triggered the moment
that I decided to talk, but I talked.
I went to my doctor
and I started to talk to him
and he asked me a question that I
almost got out of,
because he said,
have you ever been diagnosed with depression?
And what my brain was, diagnosed?
No.
But I talked. I started telling
him all of my feelings,
all of my experiences.
And I started to unload
and I started to tell him
my fear and stigma
and I said, look,
I'm scared that this is going to go on my medical record,
it's going to affect my insurance rates,
it's going to affect my ability
to get a job.
And at that moment, he said, stop.
And what he said next
literally saved my life.
He said, Daryl, it's genetics.
And at that moment, my world changed.
I saw depression differently.
It wasn't a flaw.
It wasn't a weakness.
It wasn't something to be judged.
I learned that depression just is.
My hope is that this story will help others.
in several ways and one is that look
I represent one in four men
who will suffer from clinical depression
in their lifetime but I'm a lucky one
only 20 % of people suffering
from depression
will ever seek help those other
80 % they won't seek help
but here's my challenge to
you as they start talking
I hope you'll listen.
You
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