NEVER Judge Your Brother's Battle Within

The loneliest place to be: FEELING LIKE AN ALIEN IN THE COMPANY OF PEOPLE WHO CLAIM TO LOVE YOU... 

 

 

 

September is Suicide Prevention Month. Loving someone means making them feel a sense of belongingness even at their darkest moods. Not all sense of doom can easily be programmed by thinking positively. There is something that is deeper and DARKER than loneliness, called DEPRESSION. 

 

Factors that may predispose a person to be depressed, include the following:

• Death or loss of a loved one - this may cause so much grief to the point where the body could no longer tolerate. Grief can alter the production of hormones, and in this case our feel bad hormones may become so abundant causing us to be depressed.
• Abuse - a person who was physically, emotionally, or sexually abused in the past, has a high vulnerability to clinical depression later in his/ her life.
  
• Conflict - Personal conflicts or disputes with family members or friends, may make one vulnerable to be depressed.
• Major events or any memorable events, good or bad. Even good events such as having a new job, marrying the man/ woman of your dreams, can cause depression as much as losing a job, retiring, money problems, or getting divorced. But keep in mind that clinical depression is never just a "normal" response to stressful life events. Depression is much deeper than sadness and loneliness.
• Genetics - family history of depression may increase the risk. According to studies, depression is a complex trait, which means that there are probably many different genes, each exerting small effects, rather than a single gene that contributes to disease risk. The genetics of depression, like most psychiatric disorders, are not as simple or straightforward as in purely genetic diseases.
• Medications that has side effects that could cause depression. 
• Personal problems such as social isolation due to other mental illnesses or being an outcast from your own family or social group.
• Terminal illnesses such as cancer and other serious illnesses such Diabetes Mellitus, and other incapacitating illnesses may cause depression due to feelings of worthlessness and the fear of not having enough resources to gain back one's health, or worst, fear of dying and being alone. Sometimes depression can co-exist with major illnesses or may be triggered by another medical conditions such as Adenomyosis due to hormonal alterations that can cause the increase of feel bad hormones.
• Substance abuse. People with substance abuse problems also have major or clinical depression. Drugs or alcohol may temporarily make you feel better, they are also known to cause one to have depression in the long run.

These are just a few of the causes of depression. But whatever the cause may be, NEVER JUDGE ANYONE WHO IS DEPRESSED. DO NOT JUDGE OTHERS WHEN THEY FEEL THAT WAY, BECAUSE YOU NEVER WERE GIVEN THE CHANCE TO WALK IN THEIR SHOES. We react in myriad ways, JUST BE THANKFUL IF YOU FEEL COURAGEOUS ALL THE TIME AND NEVER JUDGE THE DEPRESSED. Just be thankful if "YOU CAN JUST SNAP OUT " of your loneliness at any given point in time. Because in all of life's realities, THEY ARE MUCH MORE COURAGEOUS THAN WE PERCEIVE THEM TO BE. Having the ability to BATTLE WITH DEPRESSION and bounce back and forth takes much more than a SUPER MAN COURAGE TO SURVIVE EVERYDAY. 

 

Check out with your friends and loved ones. SOME HAPPY LOOKING AND JOYFUL BEHAVING PEOPLE ARE CRYING OUT AND DYING OUT INSIDE. Never try to talk them out of depression nor do you tell them to snap out of it BECAUSE IT IS NOT AS EASY AS IT MAY SEEM. JUST BE THERE. A SINCERE HUG AND A SILENT PRESENCE CAN COMFORT MUCH MORE THAN WE CAN IMAGINE.

 

Understanding DEPRESSION