DEPRESSION

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It’s very challenging to feel hopeless and void about life.

It was past 9pm. Her heart was so heavy. She cried all through the previous night and in some part of the day, she still wanted to cry more but she couldn’t. She prayed for tears to come but it didn’t and so she decided to go play with one of her friends.

Other girls she knew were there. They went on talking, laughing and arguing until some 
went to their rooms and she left the remaining sleeping.

Folarin walked back to her room, opened her cupboard so she could eat something but she ended up closing the cupboard without doing anything. She felt some form of resistance in everything she enjoyed doing. Even her love music couldn’t help.

Hello! have you ever felt like Fola or worse than Fola?  

I come from a point of view where regardless of our environments or circumstance that has shown to be the normal possibilities for depression, you can come out of it. All we need to do when we want to take bold steps is to be deliberate.

Deliberately allow your past go, avoid self-doubts, stop living in regrets, stop the comparison, deliberately speak to God and someone you trust and you are sure can help you out of what you are going through. You just have to speak to someone. You might have prayed to God and you’re seeing changes but telling someone makes you accountable and puts a check on you. You might even find out that you were wallowing in pains because you were probably naive about what to do in a particular situation.

Suicide victims did not just think of suicide attempt on that day, it started from an issue or issues that went from seconds to minutes to hours to days to months and even years.
Just stop being lonely, You deserve to stay happy! Don’t let whatever you are going through eat you up until you do not know what is wrong. It’s depression!

We are shaped from our genes, environment and circumstances in life. Some life issues like death of love ones, abuses, sicknesses, delay, mistakes are serious set-backs we have to conquer.

God loves you and me.




Comments

  1. UnknownWednesday, July 04, 2018

    Another awesome post. Depression is something that people can easily hide because people don't know how to address it. I hope someone reading this has the courage to talk to someone and not push them away.

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  2. Godwin-Usoro GoodnessThursday, July 05, 2018

    I hope so too. A lot of people do not have the courage to talk about what hurts them especially when they feel its a shame.

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