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✨POV✨: You find yourself feeling bogged down a lot. By what? Well, if only it were that simple. It's a general mood you're in. Nothing seems like fun anymore, you are constantly tired, you feel hopeless and helpless.
Severe Depression (medically reviewed and diagnosed as major depression or major depressive disorder) is no cake at all. It's not even a dessert. It's some dish you can't help but eat, not because it is delicious (which it is certainly not). But because you just can't help it - it's what you've become used to. It leaves a bitter aftertaste, does not fill you up with energy, and if anything, is harmful for you. Severe depression is that sort of a dish.
The S of Severe Depression 🌱
Severe Depression is a type of clinical depression (the kind that can be diagnosed by a mental health professional using the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual or DSM). It has psychological and physical symptoms which get in the way of our regular lives and tend to steer us away from meeting our greatest potential.
Possible risk factors for a person's depression symptoms are being female, having a family history of mental illness, struggling with a chronic mental/physical illness, or experiencing a traumatic life-altering event (especially during teenage years). To know more about teenage depression, click here.
Some Common Symptoms 🚧
😫 Irritability, anger, or frustration
⚖️ Weight changes
⏳ Mood swings
😴 Daytime sleepiness or feeling sluggish
😵💫 Restlessness, low productivity & having difficulty concentrating
🌗 Sleep cycle changes
🥃 Excessive substance use
How Can We Treat Depression? 🩹
🏃🏽 Taking care of our physical health
We often underestimate how influential our physical health is in deciding our mental health. A chunk of our mental health has to do with brain chemicals and hormones that our body releases when it is healthy. A healthy diet, staying hydrated, working out regularly and getting quality sleep, all contribute to a cocktail of these feel-good hormones and brain chemicals called D.O.S.E (Dopamine, Oxytocin, Serotonin and Endorphins).
🗣️ Therapy
Therapy helps us become BFFs with ourselves. To accept what we can't change and find the courage to change what we can. And all of this depends on how well we know ourselves. Because only if we know our thoughts, feelings, insecurities, biases, needs and wants, can we help ourselves evolve towards being the best version we can be. We can talk our way out of depression. To know more about talk therapy, click here.
🤳 Mini-Therapy
If classes are therapy, self-study is mini-therapy. Mini-therapy, a 5-10 minute interactive session, comes in handy whenever and wherever we are feeling discomfort and want to find our peace again, when therapy needs scheduling and waiting.
Say you're thinking, 'I don't feel good right now'. Click on the link and explore your discomfort with guidance and support. This could be at 3AM or 10PM, but whenever that is, you don't let this feeling last for longer than just right now.
💟 Self-Love
Throughout this journey of treating and healing, one of the most important pillars is us, the individual. So, every once in a while, we can (and must) reaffirm how beautiful, capable and brave we are. It isn't easy to deal with mental illness and to have to accept that we were just dealt the wrong cards. To appreciate, be calm and gentle with ourselves is part of the healing process and also, shows us who we need to be. Wondering about how self-love can heal? Don’t, just click here.
Last Word on Mental Health 🤍
Whenever in doubt, remember that depression can be hacked. It cannot stick if we don't let it. It sure is tricky, but together we can mastermind into submission.
Note on Mental Disorders🚩
Depression (aka clinical depression) is a mental illness that can be of two different types - mild depression (aka persistent depressive disorder) and major depression (aka severe depression or major depressive disorder). Common symptoms of depression include prolonged depressed mood, low self-esteem, mood swings, loss of interest, and having trouble focusing. If you have symptoms of clinical depression or thoughts of self-harm, please use the national suicide prevention lifeline or contact mental health professionals to seek treatment options.
It is also common for other mood disorders like bipolar disorder or premenstrual dysphoric disorder to occur alongside clinical depression. Antidepressant medications may be prescribed in the case of severe symptoms, in combination with a form of therapy such as interpersonal therapy or brain stimulation therapy.
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