Depression is a psychological disorder associated with sadness and it has several symptoms with which it can be identified, such as lack of goal directed activities and a lack of passion, too much sleep.. too little sleep, binge eating.. starving.. sudden increase in weight, sudden loss in weight and guilt , lots and lots of guilt and delusions.
People often deal with this through various (ineffective) defense mechanisms. One of them is Intellectualization. This involves looking at a stimulus that makes you sad in a highly mechanical, intellectual and non emotional way, as though the problem does not involve you. People go about intellectualization by describing the disorder and it's symptoms .. and ways to deal with it.
It doesn't matter how many times you have read about this in your psychology textbooks, because a list of symptoms can't make you empathize if you haven't felt it. Imagine wanting to die, it won't even matter because no one would feel bad if you did, not your teachers who are too angry with you for not studying because your too busy being upset, not your family who thinks you're constantly unreasonable, and friends? what friends?.. The Life Instinct drives all our activities and desires, it is essential to live, imagine that transforming into The Fear of Life, And did i mention guilt?
The worst part is, it can be cured, but then there's the taboo of going to counselors, and the sky high prices of sessions. Seems like a big trap doesn't it? and then we laugh at suicide victims and call them weak.
Be compassionate, for everyone you know is fighting a battle that you have absolutely no idea about and you don't know how much more 'hate' might be needed to tip them over the edge, do kind things for loved ones and strangers and sometimes a hug is all you need to put all your broken pieces together.
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