If there is one thing that kills faster than one can imagine, then it's depression. Depression is a killer and a lot of persons have fallen victim of this disease; well I chose to call it a disease because I see it as one destroying the life of it victims. I can sure tell you it is easy to fall into depression but coming out of it takes a longer period to heal and one sad thing about depression is that it trapped its victims if they don't get to speak up or confined in someone they trust.
Whenever I share my story with close relatives or friends that this jovial girl has once be depressed they just stand in awe because am someone that's hardly sad in public, always wearing a smiling face. Also confineding in people is not my thing or let me just say it's more of a trust issue because of how people I loved dearly broke my trust so it is just me and me alone. Facing depression wasn't so easy on me and it did get to the point I felt it was me against the world. The feeling was like nobody loves me and a lot of stuff going through my mind, I asked a million and one question yet I got not even a single answer. And yes!! It was that bad because suicidal thoughts began to Pop up but I'll say the only thing that saved me from carrying out that mission was that I was too scared to also die. 😔
No one knew what I was going through even when in the midst of people that called me their friend and I never showed anybody I was helpless rather they kept tagging me a strong lady. I knew within me if I didn't do something quick I might end up taking my life not knowing where the courage must have come from. To cut the story short, this part was really divine because my mentor came into town and invited me over of which I went to see her. We got talking and from there I mustard the courage to open up to her and wow!! I sincerely love the way she loved and embarrassed me. Also I ended up spending three days with her of which each day she allowed me pour out my heart and that was how my recovery journey began.
One thing I can say for sure that depressed people need is trusting someone they can pour out their heart too cause it is the first step to recovery and one wrong thing to do is think they can help themselves.
Creating awareness also is necessary because it would be good when depression is dealt with from the initial stage before developing into something big and that can be done by having a frank discussion. people that has overcome depression can also share their own experience that way the rest can be enlightened how dangerous depression is. So creating awareness helps inform the public to take necessary beccactions by speaking to a trusted fellow in other to overcome as soon as possible.