Overcoming Depression: My Personal Journey

I believe everyone must have experienced this phase of life. Some people find it hard to recover from experience that leads to depression while others struggle to find their way out of depression. Based on my perspective I think depression is part of life on its own, everything around some people smile crack jokes, and are still depressed, I was once like this only a few people knew I was not fine.

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Life and depression are something we can never escape from, being rich and wealthy doesn't mean a person can't be affected by depression, most especially the poor are people that undergo this experience. I feel everyone has a way they struggle to escape from this and also recover from it. I am a living testimony of this.

Being in a struggling country with high inflation, especially from a low-average family alone is one factor that causes depression to me. It's when I was young, my uncles often told us how hard life is outside, how we have to struggle to build up our families and make home Proud but I could not believe because I was too comfortable then but now I can see it and it's even getting worse day by day. Another experience that caused depression for me was my ex-girlfriend who broke up with me because I had only one head and not two, I had two hands and not four, she expected more from me which I couldn't provide for her so she saw a better version of love and left. Damn! This experience then really depressed me and I thought of suicide as an option but thanks to my friends who motivated me and remembered how special I am. So many experiences have caused man to be depressed but life moves on.

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There are some vital things I do when I experience this phase of life anytime to avoid causing further harm to myself.

• Talk to a Friend: This aspect has been my key vital way to escape depression same with my friends also, sometimes I am the victim of depression, sometimes they are the one, but sharing our thoughts and observation has really helped me escape a lot of traumatic experiences. I know I am not perfect sometimes this words of advice are all we need to overcome this experience.

• Listening to Music: Music helps me to predict my mood. I listen to musics almost all the time even in the midst of crowds. When i am experience sad moments leading to depression I try to tune on a fast music or slow music depending on my mind or mood at that moment. Music is like a food to our mood and moods can help distract our mind from depression.

• Engaging in Exercise or Sports: This has been helpful to me, especially when I want to distract my mind from something bothering me, I just exercise or play a sport I love which is basketball. Sometimes I also engage in watching games with friends.

This three, are my main source of solution and distraction from depression, I hope with this few experiences I have shared someone out there will also be saved from depression. Depression can be dangerous is we don't take heed to it early.

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