Depression

Although I don't have depression and have not much information about it I will write what I know about depression On Saturday 18th April 2016 I was working away at my job as I usually do tidying up and stacking out shelves and late afternoon a customer comes In and asks for a blue bandage as his White one on his arm is getting dirty as he had an infection In it, he then proceeds to show me his wound which is in his wrist and shows me a deep gash and I go ouch and ask him what happened.He done a cutting sign(meaning he self harms)and that he told me that if he hadn't of been able to find me to get the blue bandage he would have got frustrated.I felt emotion towards this customer as I finally understood a bit more of what depressed people go through as from what friends have told me about their depression saying that it's a dark world sometimes and they sometimes call their depression the dark wolf.i felt like I wanted to hug this customer so much and tell him he'll be ok but I couldn't hug him because I felt like if I did he might have took it wrong way and complained to my manager(as in today's views if u hug a random person it can be misconstrued as sexual advances and I didn't want that).I don't know if this would have happened if I had of hugged him but I left work that day with a heavy heart feeling sad and terrible as to what that customer must have been going through and did he have family and friends to help him. it also urged me to text both my friends one of whom used to self har, to deal with the stress of life and one of whom thought of self harming but dealt with those dark thoughts through other avenues .Both my friends thankfully don't do that now but because of that one customer I finally got more of an eye opener as to what depressed people really go through and how it affects them both emotionally and physically.