She stood across the table, viewing the brilliant beautiful sky. The ground seemed suitable enough for the purpose. She had drunk half way the previous night, and she had no idea i had knocked on the door for the umpteenth time until she had some liquor left her body. I was tempted to stay mad at her all the time over her atttitude of the previous night but i did not plan to nag at her as regards the other night she drunk herself to stupor.
Maddie looked at me from a distance as i walked towards her direction with the expression on my face saying "Why are you doing this to yourself". She turned away though looking disgusted over what happened that night. Then i said no, you don't have to keep doing this to yourself
She had been suffering from depression for the past 5 months and had made attempts to take her own life twice. She had told me how she was molested by her grandfather when she was a child and had made efforts to tell her step father about it for years but didn't get the courage to and when she finally summoned the courage him never believed whatever she said but instead turned it against her that she was just a Cheap WHORE. So, she became the enemy.
Now i am making attempts as a friend to lecture her about depression and how to go about it because she sees nothing good in herself and she has the symptoms already, she stays all day in her bed drinking, according to her thats how she feels better
WHAT IS DEPRESSION?
Depression is a mental health disorder that comes along with depressed mood or loss of interest in activities which causes a significant impairment in their daily activities. It negarively affects how you feel, you feel this sorta emptiness and you get this negative energy around you and you see no reasons to be happy at that moment
BI-POLAR DISORDER
Although different from depression most people use the word interchangeably, but could be included in the list. Someone with bi-polar disorder often experiences low moods that meets the criteria of depression
So you must have prolly heard about the word depression before or even see someone undergo such. One day, i pumped into a facebook post of a yound lady, saying she had updated her whatsapp and facebook status saying "feeling depressed", woke up thinking her friends whom she thought she mattered to was going to see the message and come talk to her. Sometimes all what the depressed need is just some little attention. some dont even need the attention they just want to wallow in whatever is causing the depression and keep telling themselves they can take care of themselves. A good number of them would not tell you when they are depressed.
A lot of things can cause depression so is depression actually real. Well, yes it is even more real than those scary scenes on movie you watch
What can you do to help? One way you can help is by creating awareness as simple as making a post like this most prolly using the tag 'life'
You can also help online by reaching out and leaving helpful comment on the life tag and other related tags. Also you could do this on other social platforms.
https://discord.gg/aRjD6yy
https://discord.gg/aRjD6yy
This is a discord channel of people whom have experienced depression in the past for years and had come out of it. If you feeling depressed and need someone to talk to. We would be glad to have you there.
@nathankaye is the sole founder of preventsucide. He is a performer with so much soul to his music when he performs, he is a one band man blessed with alot of hand in playing the instrument.. He had once faced depression and felt it would be cool to counsel depressed people. You could jump into our server as we try to make you understand you are not alone in this as thats what you need.
I am also working on a special blog called Ted talks(@tedtalx) on steemit where i would interview speakers and speak about alot of things ranging from feminism to technology and inspirational talks too .
Stay tuned!!!
I am E.T.E.MI and am a jack of all trades.😎
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