It's another beautiful week and thanks for having me write in this amazing community again. A big thank you for all the love shown to my first engagement in this community, I'm indeed grateful.
In this article, I want to help people understand two particular words and when to use them because a lot of people have been using them wrongly. SAD and DEPRESSION are common feelings in the world today.
Writing this article made me remember when the word SADIST became a trend among teenagers and youths in my country some years ago. Just because 'SADIST' has the word 'SAD' in it, a lot of people including myself called use the word for ourselves whenever we are feeling sad. I also had a wrong idea about being a "Sadist" until I checked the dictionary and found out that this word doesn't mean being a sad person but something worse than that so I stopped using it.
This is the same thing when people want to define the kind of emotions they are feeling at a particular time. These days, it's so funny that everyone uses the word depressed even when they are sad. I guess they do this so people can feel pity on them though but I just feel it is way too much and for some people, they just couldn't differentiate between being depressed and sad.
Being sad is what everyone normally feels, it might be caused for not being satisfied with a particular thing. It might be over a movie, maybe your football team, maybe at work, or any other thing while being depressed is way more than just a feeling of dissatisfaction. I have studied the case of being sad or depressed and I can say depression can also be referred to as a disorder.
A depressed person is someone who has lost the will to keep moving forward with life, with no energy to do anything. The feeling comes with an inner emptiness and the effect on people is completely different from the effect of sadness.
Depressed people get paranoid easily and it doesn't just go away the next day or the next minute like sadness. It takes as far more as going to rehab or seeking the help of an expert in the field of counseling.Now imagine just because your work is not going on smoothly, you say you are depressed and the next day work is okay then you say you are not depressed anymore. People need to understand that depression is a feeling that can't wade off easily so it's best when we are careful with describing how we feel.
Since depression doesn't often go easily, medically they prescribe an antidepressant to people to use but I don't think it wise to treat a feeling with pills, I'm not saying it won't work or it hasn't worked but how safe it is for humans. I'm sure this medication are expensive and not everyone can afford it. Now imagine buying something expensive to cure a particular thing while it damages something else, and taking pills can be addictive in just a blink of an eye.
I would rather prefer you see a therapist, get a routine of life, hit the gym, take walks, get out of that tight space of yours, join a group whereby you get to share kinds of stuff that happen and if you are the type that gets shy a lot, get a diary or create a notepad and write whatever feeling you are going through, release those feelings out. This method might be a bit slow but the more you keep trying and don't give up, the more you would be surprised how amazing your life would turn out to be and you won't have to depend on something to get better like taking pills.
The cure for depression is not death.
Thanks for having me here and I hope someone, gets my message.
