Facts of Depression: Every life is important

“I have depression. But I prefer to say, 'I battle' depression instead of 'I suffer' with it. Because depression hits, but I hit back. Battle on.” - Anonymous

As we learned in our previous blog that depression is an illness that is not considered as real disease in perception of the most of the people around the world. Today we are going to talk about some facts related to depression and break the stereotype.

Related Blog: 6 Myths Related to Depression, Depression: A Need to Talk

"That’s the thing about depression: A human being can survive almost anything, as long as she sees the end in sight. But depression is so insidious, and it compounds daily, that it’s impossible to ever see the end.” – Elizabeth Wurtzel, Prozac Nation

Center of Disease Control and Prevention conducted a survey and reported that 4.7% adults are going through recurrent feeling of depression.

You can visit this site for more such information:

https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/fastats/depression.htm

Depression is also an illness - A video you can refer - real experience of fight from depression:

https://youtu.be/Nybusx0uk8s

Depression rate of India is 4.50% in the year 2022 - Stated in a report of World Population Review:

https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/depression-rates-by-country

There is no discrimination in dictionary of depression - Anyone can get depressed

Depression is a feeling of extreme sadness, the reason of sadness can be anything like grief, loosing someone, emptiness, lack of love, dissatisfaction, tormenting memory, regret, estrangle, self-disgust, self-loathing etc.

There is no specific description for the situation and the person is going through it, because it is a feeling that can affect anyone no matter how wealthy he/she, no matter how successful he/she, no matter if the person is he or she.

It grows slowly and slowly

Depression is also called as new cancer, that develops in your behavior and body but you cannot distinguish it from sadness. In early phase people think that it is common sadness because of any unfortunate thing but eventually it grows inside the person and make things worse from self doubt to self hatred.

Depression engulfs personality starting from -

1. Denial

2. Anger

3. Bargaining

4. Depression

5. Acceptance

Gene plays major role - But not Destiny

Experts believe that in 50% of the cases genes responsible for depression in person, like if a person has family history of depression he/she has two to three times more chances of getting depressed in comparison with other person with no family history. There is no "main reason" of depression, same as the relationship of gene and depression. Depression can be occur in the resultant of mutation in gene but it is not necessary that individual is going to suffer from depression, it depends upon other factors also like trauma, environment etc.

So, if we a person have depression gene we cannot conclude that he/she is going to suffer from that situation.

Physical Exercise Helps

Exercise is one of the effective way for good mental health, it reduces anxiety, depression and negative mood. In a study conducted by University of Nebraska Medical Center reported that It elevates your self esteem, self acceptance and alleviate social anxiety and low self confidence. Yoga is a form of exercise that also helps in maintaining good mental health and fight depression. In an article published by Ledetra Bridges and Manoj Sharma, they discussed about how yoga is helping people as it became coping mechanism and leading the individual towards path of self acceptance and positivity.

Yoga types that helps in maintaining good mental health:

1. Asana Pranyama

2. Viniyoga

3. Hatha Yoga

4. Kundalini

5. Ashtanga

You can visit here :

Exercise for Mental Health

The Efficacy of Yoga as a Form of Treatment for Depression

Remedy - Talk Therapy

In some point of life everyone goes through agony - the lowest period of time where a person feels emotionally distressed. For some people it is short period of time but for some people it became an unending agony that gives extreme pain and hopelessness. A person who is going through a situation like that talking magnificently is a very difficult task that requires high level mental strength. In that circumstances the best way is to try talk therapy so that slowly they can feel comfortable and can openly talk about their problems. The professional is best fit for talk therapy because they are unbiased and trustworthy. Sometimes the group talk therapy also helps when you see similarity in pain of your and others and listen their inspiring story of fight from depression and it also lowers the self consciousness.

As we all know every single person is unique and different from each other so like that every individual have their own coping mechanism that they follows and fight this depression by directing their extreme feelings into other activities. Some of them are listed below :

1. Art

2. Music

3. Swimming

4. Dancing

5. Yoga

6. Brisk Walking

7. Hiking

8. Meditation

9. Jogging

Sites for help:

Live, Love , Laugh - Foundation

UNICEF USupportMe

Department of Social Justice & Empowerment

UNGA UNICEF - Heartfelt Message - LOVE YOURSELF

Hope this blog is useful for the people out there.

Just remember one thing listen to the person and do not make fun of any person who is suffering from depression may be you are their last ray of hope.

Take care of yourself and your loved ones.

We will meet in next blog.

Stay tuned for more such information and thank you for making it till the end.