How are you feeling today? Yeah, Im okay, not much else to say really. Its very difficult to come clean about your depression, its much easier to put on a smile and brush off anyones concern with a casual Im fine, because sometimes letting go of your façade and being truly honest about how bad you feel is too hard. Then there are the days when you let slip and youve got to cover your tracks and say youre just having a bad day rather than a bad month. Its easy to hide your depression when youre amongst friends and family, you join in conversation at the right moments, laugh at all the right punch lines and force enough of a smile to keep any suspicions at bay when deep down your mind is completely torn up and focused elsewhere. Its one of reasons Robin Williams death took so many by surprise because how can he be depressed when hes so funny, energetic and full of life? Well, like so many of us hes an absolute natural at hiding his feelings.