Depression +nt..... Get help urgently!!!!!!!!!

Depression is a disease which you might be feeling shy to acknowledge but if you keep on hiding it, it might engulf you one day and ruin your life totally and you may not be able to get up again in your life. The life you once enjoyed will become a living shell with no meaning at all and all your dreams once you love will be blurred from your memory and erased finally. So please be aware of this deadly disease and it can happen to anyone.

Let me narrate you one true story about a guy who experienced the same situation. He always has a positive attitude in life but you know, at times you do things which you thought was right initially but later on realize it was a mistake and you have to bear the consequences of your action. The consequence here is depression. He was depressed to such a level that he didn't care about his life, career, family, friends etc. His life was just like a robot controlled by someone. But the one positive things about this person was his positive attitude in life where the disease called depression couldn't penetrate at all. During that time he always assured himself "I will never let this depression engulf me and one day I am going to defeat it". Initially it was only a thought in his mind but slowly he was able to put it into action and he kept on fighting and fighting. The moment he thought he was out of this depression, the reason for his depression always stroke back to tempt him and everytime he thought,"It is going to be different this time and I am going to be happy", but end up learning that they were all same, so he had to start the process of overcoming this depression again and again. But finally after 4 years of long struggle he was finally able to proudly say to himself, "I have done it".

Some days back I met him after a long time and he was a totally different person, it was very different from the time I saw him narrating his story to me. I thought to myself what depression can do to a person. When we were talking he told me," Depression is an addiction, unless you know the root cause and you are ready to be treated you are never going to be successful in treating it and it is very easy to fall in temptation just like a drug". But he was finally able to overcome his depression when he realized the reason for his depression is not worth and it was a mistake.
Here my message is that it was lucky for him that he was able to overcome but many of us may not be able to do that and eventually become victims of depression. And end our life without any meaning at all which otherwise would have been a beautiful one which we always have dreamt off. But there are ways to prevent it. Here are some of the conditions which will help you in finding you are having depression.

• Significant weight loss when not dieting or weight gain (i.e., a change of more than 5% of body weight in a month), or decrease or increase in appetite
• Insomnia or hypersomnia (excessive sleeping) nearly every day
• Feeling restless or sluggish to the point that others notice
• Fatigue or loss of energy
• Feelings of worthlessness or excessive or inappropriate guilt
• Diminished ability to think or concentrate, or indecisiveness
• Recurrent thoughts of death (not just fear of dying), recurrent suicidal thoughts without a specific plan, or a suicide attempt or a specific plan for committing suicide

My best advise will be if you have some of these problems you should get help from a psychiatrist. If you don't want to go directly to psychiatrist then at least talk to somebody whom you trust about your problems. Never ever keep it to yourself.

....ila