Mistake or Miracle…How I “Disappeared” My Chronic Depression I knew a young girl who suffered with chronic depression. She became depressed at the age of twelve and lived that way for the next forty years. She cried all the time, and no one could figure out what was wrong with her. Her parents tried to reason with her, but there was no consoling her. Eventually, not knowing what to do, her parents punished her for crying and for being sad. This made her hide her sadness, but it didn’t make her less sad. That young girl was me. I wasn’t like the other kids in school because I couldn’t be…