DEPRESSION IS SOMETHING VERY SERIOUS. A personal experience
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Because I feel that words such as "depression, bipolar, psychopath, schizophrenia, among others, are often used" in a very light way, as if it were something that anyone can have and heal quickly, I think it plays down these diseases, which in themselves have a high cost both for the patient and for the closest relatives.
While it is true that any person could at some point suffer or suffer from any mental illness, often those who suffer are not diagnosed early, they spend their lives under that condition and family members call them slow, lazy, rabid, between so many other qualifiers without understanding the real cause of that way of behaving.
I invite you to read the rest of this publication to understand this reality a little more, and who knows, maybe someone close to you can help from today.
It is estimated that it affects more than 300 million people in the world.
Depression is the leading global cause of disability and contributes very significantly to the global burden of disease. It affects women more than men.
In the worst case, depression can lead to suicide.2
In its most serious form, it can lead to suicide. If it is mild, it can be treated without the need for medication, but when it is moderate or severe, medications and professional psychotherapy may be needed.1.
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Just in front is the office of a well-known psychiatrist in the area where I live.
I see that a young adult, about 24 years of age, physically appeared full, its members complete, no apparent anomaly to justify that it came from the hand of two people, with slow, insecure steps to the psychiatrist's office.
That, as a doctor led me to worry about possible diagnoses, I thought at one point that it could be a mental delay, because of the way I expressed the need to be guided, an autism also happened in my mind, but those diseases can not be diagnosed just with seeing the person. Virtually no mental illness is diagnosed from the first sight.
Then the following happened:
The patient's father sat next to me, and talking on the phone he told his interlocutor the reason why he was taking his son to the psychiatrist, and my biggest surprise, it had been two months since the death of his wife, and the son can not stand the impact of this new reality, "the death of the mother", and fell into a psychotic depressive shock, in a matter of seconds it happened.
From that moment on I said to myself, how strong, this is really very serious, I never saw anyone in that condition, thinking about what can cause psychological pain.
I stayed with this experience for life. It was overwhelming.
Do you know someone with a psychiatric illness?
How do you handle it?
This is the major problem my broo
la depresion es muy peligrosa en aquellas personas que no saben como tratarla.
I have been dealing with this for a long time.
My parents do not consider this as a real sickness, but is real. no matter how many tea, or strange things they make me drink for make me feel better. Inevitable in some point of my day/week/month, I feel worthless and useless. Like someone who doesn't deserve love and a mess in general.
I pretend to be fine and make that thing doesn't exist, but sometimes is obvius that I'm not ok. Especially when I'm with my boyfriend.
Of course it is a serius business stuff, but you know. If is not that obvius like a flu or a broken arm or anything like that, people won't consider it like a real sickness. Despite does exist people who has committed suicide due to this, but again, the majority think like my parents: "they are just "weak mind" people".