Depression, feeling like there's no point
Everyone feels unhappy now and then when things seem to go wrong but when you're depressed it's a whole lot different. When someone feels unhappy they can seek help, love or support from others but if they are depressed they feel a terrible isolation, as if in a prison with walls that nobody can penetrate. Others may be there offering support, love and compassion but it cannot pierce the wall that separates them. In a cruel way the sufferer is both a prisoner and their own jailer, torturing themselves with words and actions that keep them stuck, unable to find a way out of the clouds of despair that have them trapped.It's this feeling of desperate isolation and loneliness that defines depression and makes it different to plain unhappiness. With depression you can know that help is there for you, that others care and are offering support but you feel disconnected as if you aren't really there, everything seems distant and somehow not real. The world seems to drift on without you being a part of it.
Depression is an extremely debilitating illness which affects not only the individual, but also their family, their friends, their employment, their self esteem, and ultimately, restricts the enjoyment of their life.
Many people with depression go through life without seeking help, believing that depression is just 'part of them', but in truth, depression is very treatable.
People with depression often feel that they are 'alone', whereas in-fact this is far from the case, with as many as one in six people suffering with some form of depression at some point in their lives.
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This poem by Bill Lyons sums up how many women with depression feel
If only I was perfect, like the women on TV
But I'm not the shiny silky one, dull lifeless hair thats me.
My whites were never white enough, my children fight and scream
I wander through lifes minefield, like a zombie in a dream.
They never notice what I cook or if they do they moan
We live our lives quite separately, together but alone.
Not like the happy children that bubble on my screen
Who always rush to Mummy to tell her what they've seen,
Nor like the rugged husband with the soft and kindly face
Who'll kiss away the raging day till the pains gone without a trace.
It makes me feel inadequate to watch the perfect wife
Stand serenely in her kitchen and orchestrate her life.
While her family cluster around her and flash their fluoride teeth
And dazzle with their pure white shirts and pure white souls beneath.
I dread the glint of morning, of each new demanding day
No tablets fizzing in my glass can dissolve that hurt away.
As each day follows yesterday in a never ending chain
It seems each day I've tried and failed, just to try and fail again.
Until the failures don't matter and I just forget to try
And I build a wall around me and no one understands that
If they think of it at all, I am waiting here for someone
To care enough to scale the wall.
Depression for men and women is massively on the increase, some of the causes are listed below:
The demands and pressure that modern living forces upon us takes it's toll, by understanding how we build the prison of depression we can learn how to dismantle it forever.
I can show you how to understand depression and can lead you the point where you can take charge of and enjoy your life without drugs or medication.
Everyone has or will experience feeling depressed in their lifetime. It is expected that at one time or another, you may feel sad or overwhelmed due to challenges in your life or, seemingly for no apparent reason at all. At times,these feelings of sadness can become intense and prolonged to such an extent that daily functioning can become difficult.
Part of dealing with depression is the ability to spot the Symptoms of depression, these include: inability to gain pleasure, even from activities that used to make you feel good, feeling worthless, useless or guilty, isolation from people, fatigue, irritability, indecisiveness, poor concentration, and a change in sleeping and eating habits, losing or gaining a significant amount of weight. In some cases, feelings can become so overwhelming that thoughts of hurting yourself or ending your life may appear to be the only option.
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