HELP IS RIGHT THERE!

In today’s fast paced world, we fail to pay attention to people around us. There are so many individuals around who wear a mask of happiness but are damaged deep within. These are the people who need our love and support of all kind. We may not know their pain and the state of mind they are in, but the void in their lives remain. As we have progressed as a society, there has been a proportionate increase in the number of people suffering from mental health issues and are forced to seek mental health counselling.

And not just adults, mental health issues like depression, anxiety are becoming a growing concern in the teens as well. With the competition to be the best on the rise, the pressure that is put on kids is way more than they can actually handle. The blame game as to what or who causes this in kids is not going to see an end. But the kids can definitely be helped out. But how? Through counselling. Many schools and colleges today have a separate counselling department with a qualified mental health therapist dedicated to listening to problems of students (emotionally/mentally) and helping them carve their own path out of it.

As every human is unique, so is the reason for depression different from each one. There are many different things that can affect a person’s mental health. It can sometimes be way too over whelming for a person suffering with depression to even speak up about it, leave alone seeking medical help on their own.

A person who is suffering from depression might not even realise that they are going through a medical issue that can be tackled. The first step to freeing them from their condition is addressing the issue and secondly convincing them or rather showing them that there is nothing abnormal with them and they can be pulled out of this state of theirs. For a person who is suffering from depression help would mean having a non-judgemental ear listening to them patiently so that they can slowly unfold the pages of their lives that have been hurting them.

Sometimes, there may not be an external reason for depression too. Medically speaking, any problem that disturbs the smooth functioning of the chain of chemical events that happen in the brain can impact a person’s mental health negatively. Depression has been linked to imbalances in the brain specifically with neurotransmitters serotonin, norepinephrine and dopamine.

What we can do as someone related to a person suffering with depression, is not treating them as someone different. One of the major fears that they have is of being treated differently from others. Acceptance is a very important thing to them. Create an environment such that they will be able to talk to you openly without the fear of being judge in any way. Patience comes next. They might get moody, stressed or anything, but patience is what is needed. Depression can be defeated, it just needs to be tackled the right way.