"THE BLUES"

Living with depression is like carrying a backpack full of boulders around with you all day. It weighs you down, saps your energy, and leaves you with little motivation. We know it’s not always easy to carry that burden. We know that some days, it’s hard to keep up hope — the whole world seems overwhelming. Against us. We know that some days, Are difficult.

Are you feeling sad and depressed for weeks or months on end — not just a passing blue mood of a day or two. This feeling is most often accompanied by a sense of hopelessness, a lack of energy (or feeling “weighed down”), and taking little or no pleasure in things that once gave a person joy in the past.

Depression symptoms take many forms, and no two people’s experiences are exactly alike. A person who’s suffering from this may not seem sad to others. They may instead complain about how they just “can’t get moving,” or are feeling completely unmotivated to do just about anything. Even simple things — like getting dressed in the morning or eating at mealtime — become large obstacles in daily life. People around them, such as their friends and family, notice the change too. Often they want to help, but just don’t know how.

According to National Institute of Mental Health, Depression can often start with higher levels of anxiety, but in today's world 'there are many issues which affect the mental health of the individual and can in most cases take the form of depression.

The most important thing is to understand that depression is more than just Sadness. People might think that if they are sad they are depressed.

Depression is different from normal sadness, any condition or circumstances which interferes with the individuals’ day to day life and affects their relationship with other people, in which s/he feels like a huge hole of emptiness inside when experiencing the hopelessness associated with the condition and overthinks a lot can take a severe form of depression.

It has been studied that women are 2-3 times more prone to Depression then men.

Can Depression be treated?

Yes,Clinical depression is readily treated nowadays with modern antidepressant medications and short-term, goal-oriented psychotherapy etc. No matter how hopeless things may feel today, people can get better with treatment — and most do, and there is no harm.