Depression: Developing Awareness

in #psychology7 years ago

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To tell you the truth, I wrote this post as an emotional outlet for the sympathy, disappointment and fears I’m feeling right now. Not for myself but for our students who are undergoing depression right now.

There were many things happened in our school last week. As someone working in the Guidance Office, you will meet different kinds of students. There are some insomniac, academic pressured, mild depressed and worst suicidal depressed.
One of these is a girl from grade 12. She was sent to the guidance office when her teacher saw multiple cuts in her wrist. The teacher was alarmed so he immediately seek the help of our Guidance Counselor.
The day after, the girl visited our office, looking at her physically you will not think of her as someone who’s depressed. She still smiles, probably to hide her troubles inside. She confessed that she feels happy whenever she harms herself. she also hears some voices telling her to do faulty things like going outside their house and never come back.
We are very sorry for her, we even tried to reach out to her but refused it. She even threatened us to never tell her family or else she will really end it all.

but that's not all...

While we are still finding out how can we help her, another male student from grade 12 reportedly overdosed himself with sleeping pills. We were stunned by the news.
Seriously? We kept on asking what’s happening with these students.
We immediately go to the emergency room of the school’s hospital. We saw there his classmates crying and worrying about him. That boy from grade 12 was suffering from depression earlier this year. He was known as an active student, a kind classmate and an obedient son to his parents, seems like everything in his life is going on smoothly.

These kids are smart, they are active in school, they still have so many things to offer. But suddenly they lost their will to live, they refused to be helped and gave up helping themselves.
That's why it's very saddening to know that these kids find their life meaningless.

We should not close our eyes and allow these things to happen, over and over again.

Developing awareness about depression is a great start to help a depressed person. Doing this, you will learn to be sensitive about their condition and their struggles. It will also help you to be more understanding about them and be someone they can trust to talk with to express their emotions that can help to clear out the things that keep bothering them.
It’s also important to be a good listener to them actually it’s more necessary than giving advice. Depressed people need someone who’s willing to listen without criticizing them. We may not understand them but at least we let them feel that they are important. That there are some people who are willing to help him/her no matter what.

Depression is a serious disease but it’s curable.

We have to be more sensitive to other people, we have to look beyond their physical features for us to understand them.
But bear in mind that you have to make sure that yourself is healthy before trying to help anyone else. You have to be stronger as a person so that you will not absorb their heavy emotions.
Helping someone who’s depressed is a critical process.

Please let us not be oblivious about this matter. Let’s open our eyes around us and be more sensitive with other people. We should develop a community that cares not only for those healthy and useful people but also for those sick as well.

Resources:

How To Help Someone Who Is Depressed
Best Way To Support Someone With Depression

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Aww. What could be the reason behind their depression? I learned that just because you often see this person smile and laugh doesnt mean they're okay. It's really hard to know whether a person is suffering from depression because they are good at hiding it so we must be really cautious about it.

According to our Guidance Counselor, the possible root cause is their family problem. The girl came from a broken family while the other one his mother has a stage 4 cancer.

It's really sad that at their young age, they are already experiencing depression.

You're right. :(((

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@ishteldalosa I'm a Sociologist and not a Psychologist but did wrote a topic on how to prevent and cope with depression. The things I've written there is based on what I've learned when me and depression were best of friends.

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I love your post and I think we need to spread more awareness to as much people as we can. We can actually organize other steemian with similar niche that can help us spread this kind of awareness to others.

Thanks for sharing this post really helpful. 😊😊😊

Thank you for appreciating it. Even I don't have a depression, this article is based on my experience as someone working in the guidance office. I'm worried sick of our growing number of cases relating to depression. It's an honor to be part of a group campaign to develop awareness in depression. Let's keep in touch! 😊

We surely will.😊😊😊

Thanks for sharing this. I actually talked about depression lately on my blogs and I am glad to find this one.

Thank you. This is my way of helping those who are depressed. Many of them just needed someone to listen.

Right, it is a serious matter.

Thanks for posting this @ishteldalosa

I respect anyone who wants to help others fight against depression and mental illness. It's an affliction that needs to be talked about more.

https://steemit.com/life/@aldentan/my-honest-and-ass-kicking-post-on-how-to-start-healing-from-depression-or-other-mental-illnesses

Here's my recent post. I think you'd be able to relate to it. Do share it of course if you feel it can help others.

Sure, I'll check it out.

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