Like a Room Engulfed in Flames

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This post from Ann Voskamp was in response to Rick Warren's son committing suicide this past weekend.  As always, she has an amazing way with words, and I thought her description of depression was excellent.  I hope many people read her post and get a better understanding of the horrors of this mental illness.

"...depression is like a room engulfed in flames and you can’t breathe for the sooty smoke smothering you limp — and suicide is deciding there is no way but to jump straight out of the burning building.  That when the unseen scorch on the inside finally sears intolerably hot –  you think a desperate lunge from the flames and the land of the living seems the lesser of two unbearables."