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This is my first time posting in this community; I just came across this prompt a few hours ago and decided to participate.
Depression is real and has become very common. Depression is a very serious mental disorder that affects a person's day-to-day activities, like how they feel and think.
Depression is usually accompanied by this persistent feeling of sadness for no reason, mood swing, hopelessness, or lack of interest in things, hobbies, or activities they once enjoyed or found pleasure in. These feelings most often than none usually lead to the thoughts of death or suicide.
There have been a lot of cases of depression out there and how to avoid it and also come out of it. It is hardly difficult to go online and not see news about suicide or someone who was rescued while trying to commit suicide.
Several years ago, before the case of depression became so common and popular, I used to think that it was only the poor that got depressed until a celebrity I loved so much committed suicide due to depression.
I remember I kept wondering to myself what could make her commit suicide; I kept following the news of her death to know the reason for her death until it was confirmed by people close to her that she was depressed. It didn't make sense to me because I thought to myself she has got everything she wants; she is rich, popular, loved by many, and happy (or so I thought). until I found out that there are different things that can make one get depressed, like losing a loved one, stress, trauma, divorce, job loss, failure, financial challenge, abusive relationship or environment, to mention but a few.
For anyone going through depression, there are different strategies for being involved in order to be able to cope and overcome it.
Speak up
Talk to someone and share how or what you feel with your loved ones, either a family member or friend(s), or even a support group. Talking to someone who truly cares has a way of proving emotional relief and support. You might even end up talking to someone who has, is, or knows something passing through (or has come out of) the same experience, who might give up helpful tips and bring you out of isolation.
Stress management
I understand the economy is not user-friendly, and as such, we all have to go the extra mile to make ends meet; however, it is important that we closely monitor our stress levels. Poorly managing stress levels has resulted in serious health consequences like high blood pressure, heart disease, stroke, obesity, and diabetes. I'm sure you don't want to spend the money you worked so hard for on medication and life support bills.
Get busy
Most people who got into depression always had isolation as their trigger. Rather than withdraw from people and slip into depression, get busy, go out on sightseeing, dates, travel on vacations, change your environment, hang out with friends, etc. An idle mind, they say, is the devil's workshop. Never leave your mind idle, never leave your mind void of positive and creative thinking processes. Always filter the things you think about, the things you do, the things you engage in, and the things you get yourself occupied with.
Fight negative thoughts.
Most often than not, negative thoughts keep crawling into our thoughts, telling us we are failures and not worth it. As much as possible, fight those thoughts with powerful positive thoughts.
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