14/06/2020
EVERY person must know these 10 facts about depression.
1.
Clinical depression is a disorder, often caused by imbalance of necessary hormones/neurotransmitters that regulate your mental well-being.
2.
Clinical depression is just like any other physical disorder in other organs of our body (lungs, kidneys, heart, liver, endocrine glands, etc.).
3.
Those suffering from clinical depression, who end up commiting su***de, are NOT weak. They don't do it because of any visible problem like money, relationship, etc. (These factors of course, reinforce the depression and make it worse).
4.
Clinical depression is NOT same as being sad or upset or crazy.
For that matter, when a perfectly normal and otherwise happy individual casually uses the term "I am depressed" for a bad result or an office/household problem, it's NOT often the same as clinical depression.
5.
Clinical depression is a chronic problem. It needs treatment by experts. The treatment may involve medicines, therapies as well as councelling.
6.
There is no taboo in suffering from clinical depression. Just like there is no taboo from migraine, diabetes, heart attack or kidney failure. They are all disorders of different organs.
7.
Su***de is NOT something that is to be casually brushed off by calling someone weak, ridiculing their mental strength or making remarks that he wasn't strong to deal with this world.
8.
A Schizophrenic often sees someone often trying to murder him and becomes violent/scared/abusive.
An Alzheimer's patient starts forgetting even his son, daughter, wife or the very basic address of his home.
A Parkinson's patient is not even able to coordinate his movements.
Just as the above mentioned patients don't do any of these on their own will, a clinically depressed patient doesn't take his own life due to some tangible event of his life. His hormones/mental condition forces him to take the extreme step. Their brains are not functioning at the same efficiency !
9.
Talk about depression.
Don't consider it a taboo.
Mental health is as important as physical health.
Someone who is clinically depressed is NOT necessarily because of problems in his/her life. It is a disorder. It can happen to the happiest and most prosperous of people ! It strikes all of a sudden. Be watchful for the symptoms.
10. Stress, poor routine, insomnia, undue pressure, certain life events, emotional trauma make it worse.
Just like above factors also make heart disease, obesity, kidney disease or thyroid worse.
Only awareness about mental health will help us solving the problem !! Let's spread awareness...
