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Didn't See It Coming. You Rarely Do
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How, one might ask, can a prominent person like Wales national soccer club manager Gary Speed be so depressed that he would hang himself and nobody knew of his torment? Unfortunately, those suffering with depression can show practically no symptoms to the outside world until something snaps. And telling someone to "just snap out of it" shows no understanding of what people with depression go through. Is there anything friends or family can do? Often, no, it's really up to the individual to accept that he or she needs help and to go seek it. But when it doesn't work and something like this happens out of the blue, everyone associated with the victim asks themselves, "could I have stopped this?" (BBC)
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