[ESP-ENG] Thoughtful Daily #19 | Depression is a very serious disease that is increasingly present in mankind.

Hello friends of the Thoughtful Daily Post community, I hope you are well today. Today I wanted to join the proposal of the community where we are invited to reflect on a very important topic that is often taken lightly or even for many people is very difficult to talk about and is the subject of: Depression. I would like to invite @gabsartbook to tell us what he thinks about this topic and what is his point of view about this disorder that is more common among the population and that has ended many lives regardless of age, nationality, studies or economic position.

Like every human being I can speak from my own life experience and the moments where I felt that depression was going to end my life. For a long time I have struggled with my own thoughts and mental health, when I recognized that I needed help I realized that I waited too long to be able to talk and express everything that I felt and that made me feel alone in the world. Depression starts progressively from what I can tell you from my own experience, it is not something that you get from one day to the next, there are situations and emotions that accumulate in a way that creates a huge rock that in the end can be so difficult to cope with that it leads you to have very pessimistic thoughts.

Depression is not only not being able to get out of bed or not being able to achieve stability in your life, it is also that which makes everything makes less sense, that happy moments are forgotten and that gray moments weigh more, that you stop wanting to do the things you liked, that you start to gain or lose weight for no apparent reason, that you feel exhausted even to breathe and that you see yourself in the mirror and you do not even recognize the person in front of you. There are situations that affect people in some way that the brain is turning off, getting sick and you feel strange, as if you were the spectator of someone else's life and not yours.

It is rare to be able to realize by oneself that there is a problem and that we should seek help, in fact many people prefer to opt for other things that make them feel a momentary happiness or distract them from what the mind is trying to tell them. Having depression is a very hard road, very few people will have the courage to accompany those who go through this and who sit down to listen to what they have to say and what they feel but are embarrassed to talk about it because there is too much stigma about mental health, there are many people who see this as a way to free themselves from obligations, as being lazy, as lack of willpower or even say something as terrible as not having enough faith to get ahead.

When we are sick of any part of the body we go immediately to look for a professional to help us heal but when it comes to seek psychological help is very difficult for both the patient and the family because there are so many things that we have been told about the power we have to control our mind that we believe that if we go to a consultation with a psychologist or psychiatrist is to fall to the lowest and feel ashamed that people look at you in a different way. This is what I think about depression, I know how it feels, it is very difficult to live continuously thinking that you have to move on when you feel sick even if it is not seen externally, answering the question of the post I think that what helps someone with depression is to feel that they can be heard without being judged, is to feel that they can get support in those difficult moments, is to know that there is a solution and that life is not completely gray, is to let him understand that he is sick but that he can get better with the help of people trained for this, is to tell him that he can count on your support and that no matter what happens he will always count on you, is to remind him of the good things he has lived and everything he has achieved, is to tell him that even though today is seen as the end of the world there is always a hope of getting better, is to trust the right people and open up to tell his story and be able to heal all those things that are so hard to talk about, is to tell him that even if he can not give one hundred percent of himself he is still valuable as a person, is to remind him that things do not last forever and that life can change so much that can lead us to discover new things for which we are happy and grateful to be able to live one more day.

Talking heals and is what all people going through depression can use as a way to transform pain into strength and always remember that they are valuable even if they are not what other people expected or do not meet the expectations of a society so damaged and demanding today. It is possible to get out of depression, always looking for the right person who can help us to start taking those steps to get better and see that this is something that can happen to anyone, everyone deserves to live the way they feel happy and have that support network that can listen to them without being judged, It is very alarming to see that every day there are more cases of deaths by suicide that could have been avoided if only we were more empathetic as a society. It is a long road where I also walk it and I am understanding that sometimes we have to stop for moments to relieve our burdens.