DEPRESSION ISN’T A CHOICE, IT’S A KIND OF BRAIN DAMAGE

After years of controversy among researchers, the results determined that persistent depression causes brain damage, and not the other way around.

So, first of all whosoever is going through depression, anxiety or panic attacks. Stand up go straightaway to the person whom you trust the most and give them a cwtch, cause our society is full of snollygoster, malicious minds their schadenfreude.

One need to understand that there is a difference between the symptoms of teen and an adult, depression can occur at any time in life.

Issues such as peer pressure, academic expectations, changing bodies, criticism and many more, they can bring a lot of ups and downs for teens but for some teens, the lows are more than just temporary feelings.

Teen depression signs and symptoms include a change from the teenager's previous attitude and behaviour that can cause significant distress and problems at school or home, in social activities, or in other areas of life. Depression symptoms can vary in severity,

Emotional changes:

1-Feeling of sadness, which can include crying spells for no apparent reason.

2- Frustration or feeling of anger

3- Feeling hopeless

4- Feeling of worthlessness or guilt

5- Fixation on past failures or exaggerated self-blame or self-criticism.

6- Rejection or failure

7- Ongoing sense that the future is grim and bleak.

8- Frequent thoughts of suicide.

        

Behavioural changes:

1-Tiredness

2- Insomnia or sleeping too much

3- Changing in appetite

4- Agitation or rest lessness

5- Frequent complaints of headache/body ache

6- Social Isolation

7- Angry outbursts

8- self-harm

9- Making a suicide plan

 

NOTE: THERE ARE MANY OTHER SYMPTOMS TOO BUT THEY ARE USUALLY SEEN IN TEENS

WHAT’S NORMAL AND WHAT’S NOT

According to me everything that I mentioned above nothing is normal, we just try to be normal and we actually succeed, we don’t like sharing our issues, at times we even don’t know what’s happening with us. So, we aren’t able to convey it to our loved ones.

Much to our surprise many parents don’t even notice all these changes and they think we are being rude, we are refusing to listen to them and then the world’s famous dialogue comes up: “THIS IS WHAT YOU’RE GOING SCHOOL FOR, THIS IS WHAT YOU’RE STUDYING”

 And there are some parents out there who’ll get to know about it and rather than resolving the problem themselves they refer to a doctor, psychologist, a therapist who don’t know a single thing about your child.

I mean what’s the need of all this going to a doctor and all

Why to ignore all these things when your child is constantly behaving like this.

Forget about what happened earlier, you have plenty of time to spend with your children, talk to them, have a conversation/interaction regarding what all is ongoing in the world, what are their hobbies, what do they like, is there something that they are tensed about rather than shouting on them.

Every parent should be a good listener, you shouldn’t always teach your children what to do and what not, sometimes its good to sit with them and have interaction on what they feel regarding that particular matter.

Its ok to be strict but not so much that your child builds up a wall cause if they did it, it is going to ruin your beautiful relationship

MOST OF US SUFFER DEPERESSION ONCE IN OUR LIFETIME, I TOO DID OR YOU CAN SAY I’M ONGOING ON THAT PATH OF GETTING CURED, BECAUSE I’M BLESSED WITH SOME WONDERFUL PEOPLE AROUND ME WHOM I CAN SHARE MY PROBLEMS WITH.

Not all scars are visible

Not all wounds heal

Often, we don’t see

The pain someone feels

Understand us we aren’t able to deal