There are times where you feel trapped and you just want to shout out but there’s no one listening. You simply feel left out as nobody cares. This is when you start feeling helpless and life does not matter anymore. This is when you seek attention but nobody notices you and this is when you start believing that nothing is going right.
Then you start thinking…what is the point of trying if there’s no hope? What is the point of complaining if there’s no solution? What is the point of asking if there’s no way out? And finally, what is the point of living if there’s nothing worth living for? With all these mixed up feelings and ideas you should realize that you are simply depressed.
Depression is something you can’t snap out of because it imbalances the chemicals of your brain. It is a psychological problem caused by workload, family pressure, social change, financial problems, and changes in life pattern or relationship troubles. It is known that depression causes emotional pain, mood swings, stress, chronic illness and suffering to you and those who care about you.
Throughout the course of our lives, we all experience depression either when a loved one dies, or when we suffer a personal tragedy or face some difficulties such as divorce or loss of a job or if you are not able to get what you want. Depression is treated in a variety of ways –– either by counselling or by strong faith that God and time can heal the pain.
However, there are others who seek the dark side of life and simply jump over the hill without calculating the consequences. In other words depression is associated with a negative way of thinking that can lead to suicide acts. The good news is that depression can be diagnosed and treated effectively in most people but the main barrier to overcome is recognizing that someone is depressed and seeking appropriate treatment.
Let me share with you a friend’s story that went through ups and downs in all aspects of life. Ever since she was a teenager she faced a hard time sticking to the set of home rules. At the same time she was stressed for not getting a job and for being clueless on what educational path should she pursue. That’s not all; she was also facing some relationship intricacy and started feeling unnoticed. It is sad that I wasn’t able to realize this because I have issues of my own.
My poor friend felt that everything is just going wrong and slowly started loosing faith in life. Couple weeks later she met up with a bunch of so called friends who claimed to have the right solution to her problems. Can you guess what the solution was? Sleeping pills that will make her relax and forget all the bad things in life. Being depressed you will seek for any cure that will help you move on and so she took the pills. Furthermore, they did not try to stop her when she wanted to drive back home after the New Year party. I remember getting a phone call at 1 am hearing my friend say, “I got into a bad accident please come and get me.” The accident was terrible, she crashed another car face to face but thank god she was fine and did not get hurt. This did not solve her problem, but in fact it just made it worse.
After this incident, I spent some time with my dear friend, and that made her realize that to me life is a roller coaster. Once you’re on that seat, please don’t try to jump off or else you will get hurt. Just hang on tight and go with the ride. Remember that no matter how worse things get, there’s a logical solution behind every problem, just be patient and keep faith because miracles do happen.
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