This is what living with depression feels like: listen to a young man (interactive)

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How does it feel to be depressed?

Karl Knights describes himself as a "textbook case" of depressive disorder.

He says he has experienced recurring depressive episodes since he was 14 years old, a common age for the onset of this disorder.

Listen to him describe what it feels like to live with depression, what his road to recovery was like, and how he has learned to cope with his depressive episodes.

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