RE: So, I've Been Thinking About Suicide
Excellent post on one of the most horrid subjects - depression can indeed be terminal but certainly can be overcome with the correct treatment.
As you rightly pointed out here, suicide on the other hand leaves behind scarred family or friends who will always, for the rest of their lives in fact, wonder how they could have stopped their loved one from leaving this world by their own hand!
I lost a brother to suicide 35 years ago, a couple of days before Christmas, and still ask myself how I did not see the signs. Of course being a time of celebration just made it worse as well as we always remember that sad Christmas time.
I fell into a clinical depression about a year later but managed to get out of that deep dark pit
People need to seek help, take their anti depressants as the brain is lacking certain chemicals - just like someone with diabetes cannot stop using Insulin, so why do people have such a fear of anti depressants?
It's vital to find a good psychiatrist who will get the person onto the correct medication, that is their specialty; just like we'd go to a cardiologist if we have cardio disease. Just getting a quick script from one's general practitioner is not good enough, depression is a serious illness and needs specialised treatment!
But of course, healing does not only require popping a pill, it does take a lot of work which is not easy when in that state - counseling, some form of exercise like walking, yoga, meditation etc, but it's so worth it in the end!
We all deserve to live a fulfilled life.
Thank you for writing this, will resteem!
Oh man. Honestly madam every time I was going to reply I find myself at a loss of words and just reply to someone else instead, but now I have done all the comments. Excuse me if my language or ability fails to convey how I feel about this. I’ll cheat and start from the easy part, thanks for the resteem, you’re too kind.
Thanks for sharing your experience here, I feel honored that you chose to do it over my comment. As crude as this may come out I consider myself lucky for never having to go through this with a family memeber, I have an older brother who died due to an overdose and it’s definitely not the same.
The journey from being not okay all the time to the place of wanting life and living further is damn hard and the fact that life at its best isn’t exactly a cake walk either doesn’t help. I see people my age and younger glorifying and almost striving to be in that state of mind, I’d say even I might have gotten myself there intentionally. It’s a very dark pit and it can keep you there the moment you stop fighting. “I have clinical depression” was even a meme at some point, people treating it as a trend and I hate even think about the fact that so many people lost their lives over a trend. I don’t know, big part of me was hoping that after going through all of this research and write this post (originally this post was 30 pages long on google doc) I’d be able to just have one solution like “here you go, you should be fine in 5 minutes”. But it always comes to a substantial level of hard work, one that is even harder when you’re depressed. We just have to do the work and help each other through these dark times. I could just Rample on and on about his (I know I already have)
I’m really glad you live through that and fought it and came out to talk about, excuse the Muslim in me but I consider a lovely godly gift of a fate that I came to see you commented here as it let’s me know that fighters like you made it out. That truly inspires me.
Thank you so much for rambling on ;) This is one subject that is very close to my heart as I know the anguish one goes through, that feeling that things will never be the same again and that one will feel this heavy dark cloud over one's head all the time, but it really is not so! Depression can be overcome. There's another steemian @zen-art who has written numerous helpful articles about it, check her blog out if you like.
I wrote about what helped me and here is that link
I understand when you say some people see it as kind of trendy but we know that condition certainly is no walk in the park!
Take good care of yourself and thank you for your thoughtful response!
I echo your sentiment. This is a great post for a serious topic.
I have had people close to me thinking about suicide and it worries me even this day. To me, it's not a matter of if. There's a good chance of when.
That's the big worry, I really hope your friends state of mind improves!