Ten Signs of Depression
Some people experience depression. Some escape from it but there are people who are stuck on their situation and sometimes it becomes a serious problem where they take their own life.
We should know the signs when a person around us are experiencing depression for us to help them recover from it.
Ten Signs
1.Withdrawing from things they once enjoyed.
Some people with depression forget how to enjoy life. They are starting to forget those things that they are doing before. Those that makes them happy. Like playing sports and doing their hobbies.
2.Feeling really overwhelmed when talking to people and even when replying to message.
For others, it may be a good sign. But being overwhelmed even on a simple things can be a negative one as they push their self to react on something even they don't feel okay.
3.Struggling to leave your bed when you wake up because of the fatigue depression can leave you with even before you've done anything.
It's not the same when we are lazy. But it's the feeling that you don't want to do anything at all. You're down and no energy to move or do something.
4.Their memory has gotten worse and often forget things, struggle to hold a conversation or lose track of a conversation.
This happen when a person think too much or worry things even it's simple. Some are hard to talk to and say something that are not related to the topic.
5.Have a low mood, feeling hopeless and feel like you could break down at any moment.
I think this one was the common signs that we know. Feeling hopeless on everything in life. Thinking that all things are problems.
6.Changes in their mood at social event.
Sometimes they are happy and all of a sudden they feel like they are disconnected to everyone else. Changes of mood also happen to others.
7.They talk down about themselves and feel worthless or express they feel trapped and have a negative Outlook of the future.
They don't have any confidence for themselves and they think that anything they do are worthless or no one cares.
8.They use the excuse "I'm tired" a lot to explain behavior that you think is out of character for them.
9.Changes in appetite under eating or overeating.
Some people with depression shift their feelings on food. Whenever they are stress, they eat. Others say "stress eating".
10.Sleeping for long hours or not being able to sleep.
Some depressed people sleep for long hours as they don't want to do anything and some are not able to sleep cause they are overthinking.
Our mental health are important. We should take good care of it like how we take care of our physical and emotional health.
A Letter to Noise
You become part of our life. From night to morning you're the one that we talked to. And you help us in every aspect in our life.
I meet noise November last year and it's almost 5 months now. I'm really happy to know this platform as it changed me in a good way. At first, I doubted if it's really a nice platform as they say the it was similar to Facebook but I will never know it if I'm not gonna try.
How it changed me
Since I was young, I don't really take pictures of me or anything. I'm already happy to see and watch everything around me. But when I joined noise, every beautiful things that I see, I will definitely take some photos of it as a remembrance and to shared it to other users in noise.
I'm starting to appreciate the beauty in everything, how beautiful and amazing nature was. And how God created it. Seeing its beauty everyday was truly stunning and memorable.
I become creative and learn on photography especially in macro shots for some insects and little flowers. I can clearly see how does it look upclosed. It's really challenging but I'm up with it.
How it helps me
We all know that we can earn through our posts on noise and it really helped not only me but also the other users. All of my earnings have been saved on my Gcash and through this I already bought something for our house. Not that big but it's really useful. I'm really thankful for everything.
My Message to Noise
You're one of my favorite platform as you helped a lot of people or users. You're the reason why we become positive in life, you're the reason why we can help our family by providing what they need. You become the bridge for every people around the world to communicate with each other. We become creative on photography because of you. We learn a lot through others because of you. Most importantly, we gain a lot of friends because of you.
You're now having some problems but like how you support us, we will also support you no matter what. We will stay here, have fun, and just enjoy sharing anything.
Fighting!
Blurry Vision; Meaning, Causes and Prevention
Having a blurry vision was really hard. I can't see things clearly when I didn't wear my glasses. I'm near-sighted actually, it's start during my college days and now my glasses have a grade of 450 each which is really thick lenses. I wrote this article to give knowledge about blurry vision.
Meaning
Blurry vision means that we can see things clearly. It can be on both eyes or not. Some may experience headaches or irritated eyes when your vision is starting to get blurred. It is the lose of sharpness of eyesight, makes the object out of focus and hazy.
Causes
Difficulty focusing your eyesight
This one can be near-sightedness or far-sightedness.Near-sighted (myopia) means that you can clearly see things that are near to you.Far-sighted (hyperopia) means that you can clearly see things that are far.
Astigmatism
It happens when the surface of the eyes isn't curve properly. This one is common and generally treatable.
Presbyopia
When your eyes find it harder to focus as you age. This one is normal as it is part of aging. It is noticeable early to mid 40.
Cataracts
It is the clouding of the normally clear lense of the eye.
Glaucoma
This is the damage on the optic nerve. It's also the leading cause of blindness for people at the age of 60.
Prevention
1.Protect your eyes from UV light, wearing eyeglasses can help.
2.Healthy diet, eat foods with vitamin A like carrots, sweet potatoes and liver.
3.Eye checkup, I usually do this every year to check if my glasses are still good for my vision or it is needed to adjust.
One of the great cause of blurry vision is radiation. For us who always used gadgets like cellphone and computers, we are always faced radiation. Some of us really need to used it for work and school. One effective way to protect our eyes from it is to wear glasses with anti radiation.
In Closing
Our eyes are really important to us. We used this to see the beauty of everything around us and to continue seeing it, we must protect it and take good care of it.
"Love your eyes"
Can you lived on a place without an internet?
What would be the thing that you hold first in the morning or before you sleep?
Maybe some of you will answer "phone". We usually check our phone first thing in the morning to check some messages. We are being influenced by technology, internet, and social medias. Almost all of us now have phones, everything we do or some of our opinion are being shared to our virtual world, we captured even those food that we eat and places that we visit and to those platforms, we need an internet connection or data.
But what if you live on a place that has no internet connection or signal. Can you last long?
Most places that has no access to Internet or social medias are those province on mountains or far from the cities and civilization. An islands that has no electricity. Some can last long to stay there and some are not.
Those who can last long
Some people who are belong to generation X are not that familiar to this. To gadgets, internet connection, or virtual world. They don't know how to use phones and it's features. But some of them are learning. They are the one who I think can last long living on a place without an internet. They can find some things to do to entertain themselves.
Thoughts
We are now focus more on social medias and different platforms. But we need to focus too on our real world, those people and friends that we usually talked to and see. We need to make it balance.
A Mother's Love and Sacrifices
**She's the Wonderwoman of our life. A person who gave birth to us. They gave us so much love from the beginning that no one can replace. They can sacrifice everything for our own good. They are our first teacher. They teach us how be kind to others and respect every individual.**
A love of every mother for their child are unconditional.
They forget to takecare of themselves just to takecare of their child. I think, being a mother is one of the hardest job in the world. They don't have any salary for their work, they don't have benefits, or even holidays. They work non-stop everyday for their family.
This is my chance to give a big thanks and appreciation to our mother for her love and sacrifices for us. Since we are still young, my mother was already selling vegetables, that is her occupation. I can say that we grow and learn from selling vegetables in the market. But that changed when she sell her stall.
She try to sell on the bridge on our barangay but it doesn't last long. Now, she are selling it beside the road near our house with her "kariton". She always woke up 4 or 5 am in the morning to buy bundles of vegetables in the big market, and that was she's going to sell.
Its really hot during summer and its hard to sell during rainy season. But she keeps working for us. That's how hardworking our mother was.
**Their love and sacrifices for us are never ending. They never get tired to takecare of us and work every household chores in the house. Maybe their payment for al of this was our love for them. To see us smile makes them happy. To see us achieved our goals makes them rewarded.**
Never get tired to show how you love them, make every seconds of your life with them a memorable one. Treasure every single day with them.
"A simple thank you to them makes their heart happy"
Let the Earth Breathe, Let the Earth Live
What if it changed?
God created Earth where we live. He created nature with so much beauty in it. The scientist already gave us a warning that the Earth are starting to damage and could only exist for atleast 3-5 years due to climate change, and if we will continue doing things that destroy it.
How important nature was?
Mountains
It becomes the second home for some people especially in the philippines where some tribes are living on mountains. It was a permanent home for animals and other creature.
It can be a healing place for those people who are looking for some peace away from the city life. Its also a place where beautiful flowers are grow.
Trees
Our source of food, give us fruits to eat, shed to cover ourself from too much heat from the sun, woods for our house and furnitures, use to make paper. Most importantly, it give us fresh air, it serves as our barrier that protect us from floods during typhoon.
Oceans
A home for different kind of marine life. Another source of food for us, and can be good source of electricity.
The truth
What is happening today?
Tall trees are being replaced by tall buildings. Mountains are being destroyed and used by mining industries. Oceans are getting darker cause by the garbage and trash being thrown by irresponsible people.
Accept the facts that our world is changing, and nature are being destroyed by us "people".
"We must saved it, there's still time"
Change begins with us. Always remember that there's only one Earth.
Choices of life
In life that was full of challenges and problems, there will be a situation where we need to decide. Sometimes, we need to choose between two or more things that may affect us or others.
Last April 13, our last day of work before long holidays, my supervisor ask me if I want to apply as Accounting Staff on the Finance Department. Its a good opportunity for me to be honest, as it was inline or related with my course during college which is Bachelor of Science in Accountancy. But I need to consider something before I decide.
Salary. Is it higher or just the same with my current work or job?
Work load. I know that working at accounting was super stressful based on what other says. Managing money is my priority. It should be correct and balance.
New Environment. Honestly I'm really happy with my work environment now. I have a nice officemates and supervisors. We are like a family at the office. So I'm thinking if it will be the same.
I ask my former classmate who is working on finance about those factors. She say that salary was the same. I think my salary now is much higher as we have an overtime of 2 hours. In terms of work load, its really stressful and no room for mistakes.
Which make me realize that anywhere we go, anything we do, there will be situation where we need to decide or choose on something. Some of it may be easy to answer like a simple "yes or no". But some needs time to consider some factors before deciding, for us not to regret it at the end.
Life is a choice.
Small or big things, Easy or a complicated one, choose what you feel is good and what you think is the best. "Choose wisely" like other says. But one thing in life that you need to always choose, that is "Choose to lived a happy life"
Thank you for reading
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