I've been noticing that some people seem a little worried about me,
even if I already said what I had to I feel like it's time to talk about this again...
For who still wasn't knowing, I suffer from Depression and Anxiety, for...
around 7 years already. And before I talk about this
I want you to know that what I will say is my personal opinion on the matter, and my experience with the problems so far,
you are never forced to agree with me, but you have to respect it, okay? okay...
Depression is seen by many as "A way of getting attention", or "Drama"... but, that's far from the truth, really far,actually.
Depression is not drama, it is not a thing to joke about, it's not something fun... depression is an actual illness,
it makes that your brain doesn't produce some of the hormones that it should, that you need,
in other words, you don't feel the joy and happiness you are supposed to feel,
if you never went through depression you'll probably not understand quite well, but, when you are depressed, you don't feel "Sad",
you don't feel sorrow, anger, joy, you don't feel it, you feel.... nothing. Just an endless agony that suffocates you.
That Agony makes you feel like you are the main reason why you ended up like that,
you feel like everything that's going wrong is going wrong because of you, because you are there, and even tho you know that isn't true, depression makes you question yourself about that.
You feel you didn't do enough, you feel that you are letting everyone down, you feel useless and worthless, that you don't have talents, you feel like you are not good enough, that you can't do anything right... and even when people compliment you, you still can't get out of that bad place...because you feel like they are lying to make you feel better.
Some people tend to... 'end it' before it's their time due to all the suffering they went through. Because basically, when you
have depression and anxiety, you live your entire life under pressure and torture and you just want it to stop, you want it to end for good, and there's no such thing as a ''second option'' in the head of people with those problems, a second chance does not exist, it isn't a thing, it isn't.
I find it kind of interesting how people try to understand ''why?''...
"Why are you depressed?","What happened to make you feel that way?","Why don't you react against it?"...
If you ever questioned any of those, the answer is: there is no special reason, it's just.... everything.
It's not... 'the job that they lost', 'their puppy that died','they got a bad grade', it's... everything, literally everything.
How to explain..? Imagine a piece of paper, it's light, you can carry it with no problem, but now imagine that everytime you feel bad
about something you add a new piece of paper to the pile, the pile will grow and grow until it's too heavy that you can't carry it anymore, and then that's when you have to decide if you'll ask for someone to help you carry that.. or if you'll just drop it and quit.
I know that people try to help the ones with depression, but saying "its just a phase", "go to church", "don't feel sad",
"think of the people who love you" does not help at all. I don't mean to be rude, I'm grateful for the ones that said/say that to me,
but I don't feel better... like I said... you can't get out of that bad place from a day to another, there's no such thing as a 'cure for depression'.
There are treatments, which are of big help for some people, but they don't work if the person themseves doesn't want to do them,
it must be a baby step taken by them, it's their own choice.
I just came to clarify a little bit of what it is like, but again, this is my personal opinion, maybe this helps you deal with someone who's in that condition, and, also,
if you feel like you can't take it anymore, talk to someone you care about, your mom, dad, brother, sister, best friend, dog, parrot, anyone, just don't go through it alone, remember that you have to think of your own self before anyone else, do what's best for your own.
Thanks for reading.