Depression is a state of mind wherein an individual suffers psychological pain causing anxiety, weariness and loss of will to survive. According to some studies, it’s getting one of the most common illnesses in well-developed and industrialized countries. Its invisibility makes depression one of the most ignored disorders at least in nearly all cases.
True stories revealed that many famous figures disintegrated due to unknown and/or unpublished reasons and depression may be one of it. A movie star vanished at the peak of her career and showed up a decade after claiming that she went into drug rehabilitation. Another public figure found dead after jumping out from the window of his condominium unit. These are few of one hundred-one stories that were never given enough attention and treated like normal incidents. Drug addiction is one of the visible effects of depression and the worst, suicide.
Depression is a feeling of insecurity, fear and pessimism. Setting aside the scientific and medical definition, it is an honest, self-confessed and experience-based description that I was able to formulate.
Many people believe it as a simple state of mind wherein an individual experiences aggravation and feeling of negativity that can be resolved simply by facing the problem, analyzing the circumstances, implying best solutions and continuously pushing to recover the situation. Some people say it could be overcome by thinking about things confidently.
Have a positive thinking and open your mind. Help yourself. Be ready for more failures to come and be happy to deal with it. Never entertain any feeling of sadness and hopelessness. Do not expect much from life. Keep on going and simply be happy. These are only few of the thoughts that others suggests, true and very objective yet difficult to execute.
An individual can choose to be happy or not as they say but I hardly agree. Choices are different from options. You can always take an option but you may not be happy about it leaving you no choice. On the other hand, a choice is something that you want and could make you completely fulfilled. It’s similar to the difference between choosing what makes you happy against what is right, congruent to the disparity between satisfaction and fulfillment.
Nobody could understand depression better unless you are a victim yourself. It is a feeling of being raped in which you think positively that a single shower could take all the dirt off and then get raped again and again and again regardless of your sense of optimism and willingness to strive for survival. You don’t choose to be raped but it did happen. You think about it positively by forgetting about the incident and heading to live normally as it is. Then you got raped again, stood up once more and lived life, this time with caution and got raped again. If you are one of the people who view things like the above-mentioned, how would you be able to handle yourself then? Would you still be positive and willing to experience the same dilemma? Or would you rather care not at all and let it pass regardless of how many times you will be victimized until you let yourself turned into a whore -like personality who’s immunized over nonstop assaults? Life sometimes suffer a continuous act of rape where failure and frustration comes simultaneously over a longer period of time and this is what I call, the Age of Depression.
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