Depression is a silent killer. Ways out of it.
Since two days now, there have been an unceasingly flight of an agonizing news all over the social media platforms about a reputable accountant who worked in one of the best telecommunication companies in Nigeria, but ended up killing herself by the ingestion of sniper.
The news made us understood that she was a victim of depression for a long time, she was 47 years old, no husband, no children, coupled with other challenges.
We were made known that before her demise, she was a professional with classical proficiency in accountancy, doing well in her job, and earning good amount of money. People proclaimed about her that she was a woman with good heart, loved and cared for other.
Having read the news, i tried to check the comments of people about the matter, frankly, some supported her decision while some condemned it. Hmm! I heard the voice of the heart of people through their comments as touching the deceased, i came to the conclusion that many people are passing through depression in this country oh, just like i used to be some time ago.
Depression is real, and it's a condition that affects the frame of mind, feelings and the disposition of the victim, thereby causing him/her to operate at the lowest functionality.
My experience about depression.
There was a time i had the thought of committing suicide, i wanted to end my life as i became tired of life and everything in it, I felt there were no more reasons to live any longer. Frustrations filled me up like water fills the sea.
I could vividly remember 2020, that was two years ago, during Covid-19, when things were very tough, as a student, i invested my hard earned money and loaned money into agriculture, rented farmland, bought seeds, hired labourers, went through a lot of stresses, then planted seeds. But unfortunately, when my plants were getting ready to be harvested, Fulani herdsmen brought in their cows into my farm, and ate my plants. This really made me lost a whole lot of money, it made me went into debt, and caused depression in me. All through the night i would be thinking, I hardly sleep.
But i thank God for families, friends, and well wishers who stood my sides, and encouraged me, and helped me out with the loans.
How you would know if you're facing depression.
When you feel sad persistently, and the feelings of emptiness fill your mind.
When you're no longer interested in the pleasurable things that you once enjoyed so much.
When you begin to have the thought of suicide or already engaging in it.
Ways out of depression.
Always do the opposite of what the depression's voice suggests to you.
In our part of the world, people are passing through a lot, from lack of employment or underemployment to perpetual pressure from home, many people have bills to pay but no money to pay the bills. There are loads of responsibilities on people's neck and there is bad economy whereby the prizes of commodities are getting skyrocketed day by day and their salaries remain as it was in the beginning. This may make depression to come in, but when it comes stand against it and never submit to it's voice. Never submit to anything it brings. Always encourage yourself that tomorrow will be better.
Do well to spend time with your loved ones. Don't isolate yourself from them.
Depression may want to make you separate yourself from family and friends, especially when you aren't doing well financially and in some areas, but time spent together with can help to sweep away the major and mini causer of the depression, as they would encourage you, advise you, and cheer you up.
If you can't constantly see them physically, you can call them via phone, have video calls with them.
Do your best to help whoever is depressed.
When you begin to observe that someone who used to be happy and joyous with a lot of cheerfulness but suddenly develop feelings of sadness or hopelessness, move closer to such person, don't leave him or her alone.
There are people outside there, in your location, and community who used to be very jovial and love to be around people before but now they're restricting themselves from the public, now privatizing their affairs than they should, they now have the feelings of worthlessness in them, feel sad and unworthy most days. Please move closer to them, ask them Questions, many are willing to speak out but nobody comes to them. Do not let them harm themselves before you take steps.
Conclusion.
No matter what you are passing through, no matter how complicated your situation is, please don't live in depression, and also don't exchange your life for it, there is a purpose why you're here on Earth, there is reason why you are still alive, make yourself happy, move closer to people that delight in your happiness.
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That is saddening... depression is something that's really hard to fathom and at times we don't even realize that someone is depressed.