This word is immensely not uttered in public.
I have no idea why but to me it’s the cause of so many suicides among the youth, teenagers around the world.
To you the reader of this article what comes into your mind on the mention of this word?? It’s definitely FEAR. They say fear is a killer, and yes the fear to talk about depression openly and people facing it has led to this death.
I keep questioning myself is Depressing a crime that people don’t want to talk about it? So many youths suffer in silent reason being they are not ready to be judged by the society, family and people surrounding them.
Why? because we live in a judgmental world where people have got this idea that depression is caused by drug abuse and related stuff but Hey NO.
Personally I would relate depression as a state of the mind that is triggered by rejection, neglect, fear of the unknown and over expectations.
So many people suffering from depression have actually never abused drugs. Depression doesn’t just attack at once, NO!!! that can’t happen.
Depression is more of a chronic illness let’s take for example cancer, cancer doesn’t attack an individual once, it takes time to know that one has cancer.
The same way cancer eats up a part of the body is the same way depression attack unknowingly and before you know it, you are depressed.
My heart bleeds each time a young person, teenager or even an elder person commits suicide just because they could not speak up for the fear of being judged.
Life is precious and it doesn’t hurt to speak out. The pressure in the society will always be too much and you can never meet everybody’s expectations after all it’s about you and your life and not about the society.
You have a life. Speak out. It doesn’t hurt to seek help.