Inside the mind of depression

 Well I know a lot of depressed people are misunderstood or people just do not understand what depression is or what people actually go through. I chose to write about depression I know how hard it is to be in a place filled with darkness feeling like there is no light and there will never be light. Writing about it and painting a picture in peoples minds of how depression looks like may try to make others understand or be more woke to matters like this, who knows maybe it will even save a life. the crazy thing is that people just start talking about depression when a life has been lost and that is when its too late and nothing can be done to bring back that life. More campaigns for mental health should be introduce and people should not be scared to talk about such sensitive matters because as much as they are sensitive they are important and need to be understood in order to help others even if that person is just a stranger everybody needs a helping hand we are all one even if w...

 If you are observant enough you get notice when someone is depressed and these are some signs. 1. Feeling of hopelessness and helplessness - When the person just has negative thoughts like there is no hope of getting better or ways of improving the situation. 2. Loss of interest of daily activities- This person has no passion of things they used to love doing anymore. 3.Appetite or weight loss - You will notice that this person has stopped eating leading to weight loss or eating more than usual which leads to weight gain.  4.Anger or irritability - when you see a signs of them being restless or even violent. Their tolerance is very low and everything or everyone gets on their nerves. 5. Self loathing- Strong feeling of worthlessness towards their selves. they speak negativity upon their selves.  If you do notice some of those signs in your family members or friends please do try to talk to them and find a way to help them because on thing about depressed people is that t...

 Depression does not just effect a specific age group, gender, race or people of a specific class it affects everyone but in this case we will focus more on teenagers because it is more common in teens than in adults. Some people get depressed but others do not so why? There isn't just one reason as to why some gets depressed, sometimes its  can be biological or genetically passed down to someone or the imbalance of hormones. Some its the environment they are surrounded by including social and family problems we face . Sometimes its the personality, like how we react to events that happen in our daily lives or the support systems we create in our lives. All these things can determine if someone is depressed or not. Genes. Research shows depression runs in families. This genes can be inherited and can be a possible contribution to depression but just because someone in your family has depression that does not necessarily mean you will have it too. And there are some families wi...