Overcoming Depression

Kaelynn Clolinger is a dual degree Arts & Design and Civil Engineering undergraduate student who is active and deeply involved in various organizations at the University of Michigan. She would not be who she is today, however, without having faced the obstacle of bullying and the depression it brought. This is the story of how she overcame that challenge.

[Curiousandfearless]

It's important to remember that she LEARNED she had choices, so she made choices. But the fact that this can be learned isn't known or shared by enough people. When I was young and chronically depressed, I believed that only certain kinds of people could learn that :). But anyone can learn it and learn how to get help. And at 82, let me just toss in here that all that pain I went through ultimately led to my later life being interesting and enriching. And I never expected old age to be so interesting and rewarding!! So keep trying no matter what.

[RomRivas]

God bless, everyone with any kind of depression and Anxiety.🙏

[davidbayer]

Yes melody and myself are bullied every place we visit we are not suicidal but we are depressed and we are going to cry with Neil tonight and embrace hours of tears

[myal]

such a beautiful and bright young woman. 

[sunriselotus]

I really dislike how this video and the entire rhetoric of America and the US education and health care system works to put the whole load on the human being, the person, the child, the student, the worker, the patient, to actively seek help when he or she is sick and needs help. The motto is that the person is hurt, injured, sad, struggling from an illness and disease and it is THEIR responsibility to actively seek help...i thinks this is just so awful because if anyone who has mental illness or a physical illness of any kind should know how debilitating this is and all the entire US health care system wants to do is dump the entire responsibility of taking care of patients is the PATIENTS themselves. A person will have to do so much advocacy on their own to get the optimal live they deserve. I am living in the US for a while and I am just figuring out how obscure and belittling this society is. No American society is not perfect, and each aspect is a money profiting scheme and this needs to be fixed fast.