A hoot for the fighters

People live with a horde of conditions that are life threatening like cancers
Several live with other equally life threatening conditions.
For instance, depression.
But of course this has been quoted to you several times.
Over papers and internet, in person, probably?
And maybe you respond with a solemn nod, acknowledging without understanding or mutter, contending the statement - probably calling the world a place of wussies who can't deal with their own emotions.

Or perhaps, you are one of us. And you have lived with the condition for long and bravely so - because you live. You are strong.
You are a survivor.
And this war is nothing like the others.
You're fighting for yourself
The enemies within.
The mind that implodes
constantly burdening you
about your un-worthiness
how the world would be a
Much Better
place without you.
Constantly twisting life situations to support that stance
So, kudos to you
for being brave,
for fighting
even if no one asked you to
You are brave
You are strong
And maybe, you dismiss these phrases
And your mind may have begun
~yet again~
its savage travails
digging a deeper cavity
and piling on you
The weight of stupidity
The mass of unworthiness
that you begin to label yourself
But for whatever time you
have spent,
glancing and skimming through these words,
I am glad, you have
You are strong
You are brave
Your are a survivor
You can do this
Again.