Hi guys, do you know that statistics shows that at at least 800,000 people die due to suicide caused by depression yearly and depression has been the major cause of suicide in the world. It is also the second leading death cause in humans who range from the age of 15 - 29years
Depression is not your usual mood changes or swings cause we have various emotions as that what makes us humans, we also react differently to circumstances that surrounds us in various aspects of our daily life.
Apart from affecting our psychological health is also affects our physical health for instance it can also lead to cardiovascular diseases.
Mood swings or bad mood is actually inevitable in humans but when Helplessness, Hopelessness and Despair comes in, it could lead to depression.
The common or major symptoms of depression
- Pathetic, empty or frustrated feelings that makes you feel like you are in a deep black hole.
- Lacking the strength to face the challenges that life brings your way due to the feeling of helplessness or hopelessness because you feel nothing would work for you, this is a lie or an illusion you need to quickly snap out of.
- You become immune to fun, joy and pleasures of life, you then begin to develop ANTISOCIAL BEHAVIOR, forgetting the little things that brings us joy can make us begin to see the brighter side of life.
- You are easily agitated, restless, violent, angered and irritated to anything or anyone that gets on your nerves. This is because the ability to endure and tolerate is at the barest minimum, making you unable to overlook little annoying things.
- You begin to have low self esteem and lack self value by loathing yourself and feeling dejected for every mistake made.
- Your sleeping habit is also put off balance as you begin to oversleep or become sleepless (insommia)
source - You begin to develop characters that detrimental to your psychological and physical health by bringing you down so deep into the deep into the depression thereby affecting your logical sense of reasoning such as; *Substance abuse, Drunkenness, sexual obsession, compulsive gambling, reckless driving and so on.
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If depression is not taken care of early it would lead to serious psychological and physical health problems and possibly suicide, as it silently gives the reasons to kill oneself.
If you know anyone in depression take every attitude and body language seriously, this is necessary because they can indicate if they have given in to the silent killer. You can also seek medical advice for them, so we can jointly defeat this silent killer that has been killing our young people.
One should know that no matter how pathetic, hopeless, helpless or isolated you feel, it is not the reality of your circumstances, so seek positive emotions, strive forward and you would be able that depressing circumstances
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