[John P. Martin]

I was severely depressed for a good (or not-so-good, rather) 15 years. I’d been forcibly hospitalised a couple times, gone through various councellors, taken loads of medication — none of these things kept me from the constant barrage of self-loathing, suicidal thoughts with which I was plagued. See, I couldn’t stop thinking that these therapists and councellors and social workers and psychologists are paid to do this. They’re paid to help me out, they’re not doing it just because they care. I ultimately rejected treatment for a few reasons: I know myself much more intimately than any of these people — I can find and solve my own emotional problems, the people here to help have a monetary stake my well-being while lacking an emotional one, and having some pretty nasty asthma as a younger child left me having always felt a bit overmedicated — I don’t need any more. And I’m doing much better, now. I’ve never felt frowned upon for it … possibly because I tried not to feel victimised by it — I looked at it as simply ‘something that happens to some people’.

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Name : John P. Martin, Gender : M, Race : Human, Religion : The Order of the Unique, Age : 24, City : Brooklyn, State : NY, Country : United States, Occupation : unemployed, Education level : High School Diploma, Social class : Lower class, 

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