Depression is not sobbing and crying and giving vent, it is plain and simple reduction of feeling.

Some people with awful cards can be successful because of how they deal with the tragedies they're handed, and that seems courageous to me.

The small seed of despair cracks open and sends experimental tendrils upward to the fragile skin of calm holding him together.

And if you ever do a survey, you'll find that people prefer illusion to reality, ten to one. Twenty, even.

Depression is not sobbing and crying and giving vent, it is plain and simple reduction of feeling.

People that keep stiff upper lips find that it's hard to smile.

...let the emotional weight of a scene rest on the dialogue wherever possible. This is the easy way to avoid overinterpretation, which seems to be what turns a scene from sympathetic to sentimental.