Thanks for the video - hopefully it helps people with mental illness realize they aren't alone.
I've been depressed since childhood, too. I went to therapy a bit when I was about 12-13, but didn't stick with it. It's really only been severe at one point in my life, which was my late teens. The worst I got was lining up a bunch of my mom's heart medication on the table and staring at it for a while, but knew I could never actually do it. (My sister may see this, I think she knows about it already though.) It was a pretty low time for the whole family, my parents were having major problems and all my friends were a year older than me so they had already graduated high school and I was kind of alone. Plus I was pimply and very overweight and always had been.
It's always kind of been there, and always will be for many people. Lots of people function normally with depression, but I've always been most content in quiet places. And I use video games, tv, movies and books to escape a lot. As most people do. I have my own car, home, a career and friends, though, but I'm still most 'content' (I won't say happy) at home in front of a game.
Not to say I can't be happy, either. There are many things that make me happy and many times I've been pretty happy with my life. The last year or so I've been pretty down, though, which has made things hard. Mostly situational stuff - dislike my job, parents moved cross country, terrible, terrible weather (and probably Seasonal Affective Disorder), and such. But I have a lot to look forward to.
Anyway, that's the very basics of my story Hopefully getting your own out there helps a lot of people. Always get help. And if your friends won't help you, move on. If depression is something they can't deal with, please just move on. There are lots of people here willing to offer support and resources.