Hello everyone,
Hope you're all doing great.
Seeing this week's contest topic brought great joy in my heart, knowing that It's an avenue for me to share my experience, how I fought it, conquer it, and brought out a strong lady in me.
The topic of depression cannot be overemphasized because I tend to believe that depression is the matter of heart,
Saying out of experience, I say depression is real. I could recall when i was battling with it, it wasn't funny. Depression is not anything to be played with, it has caused so much havoc in the life of youth, such as mental disorders, and even suicide to as many who yield themselves to it.
I believe that everything that happens in our lives, we can have full control of it, we can as well determine the extent to which it will break us or our willingness for it to mould us. It's all the matter of choice. There are no challenges, pains, heartbreaks that we cannot overcome.
Depression comes as a result of extreme sadness, low self esteem, inferiority complex, heartbreaks, or loss of loved ones etc....it is technically a mental disorder that as well affects our physical health, which interferes with our daily life and activities.
My personal experience
Life is a race for only the strong, although we have the weak as well, but we can choose to stop being a weakling, grow through challenges and become stronger and better. When I overcame depression, I knew that I have grown, because it's something that I had to battle a lot with, I had to battle with it as a result of low self-esteem, inferiority complex, heartbreaks etc. I could recall a challenge I was faced with, being betrayed, neglated by the people I would have found comfort with, and out of depression and frustration I opted into commiting suicide, seeing i was all alone, and the yolk became so heavy for me to bear, i was tired so i thought of ending it, so as to rest. And in the middle of that great storm, I was asked some serious questions and when i sat down to meditate on those things, that was where my healing began.
The questions were: "The life you are living isn't your own, of which you can take at will, and if you die now what will be your gain, knowing that there is life after here, is the pains, heartbreaks, worth dying for, why don't you look at it at the brighter side? I was shocked when he mentioned death, because that was my secret solution, so when I sat down to meditate on these questions again, I was determined to fight it, and that was how I eradicate suicide attempt and depression, because nothing in this world is worth dieing for.
At that point God brought a special person into my life, who helped me, groom me in God's word, counseling me and encourage me in reading motivational literatures, and that went a long way in my healing process. Although it took time but with constant love, care and attention, I was able to break through the walls of depression.
And I stand to say that being depressed is being caged, and if you remain comfortable in the cage of depression it will destroy your life, because it nearly does to me, if not for God's intervention, and the gift of men, as well as my willingness to break out, it wouldn't have been possible.
I derived a lesson in that experience, that whatever I am going through, instead of caging myself with the chains of depression, and pains, why don't I see the positive aspect of the challenge, use it to build myself, and invite the Master (Jesus) into the situation, leave it for him to handle, because he said " cast all your yolk on me, for I care for you, and he also assured to help me and you".
So when those times want to repeat itself, I always used these words of affirmation to encourage myself and strengthen myself in the Lord.
And that has helped to build my life, standing strong in the face of trouble, and I can boldly and proudly say that I am free, and better than what i used to be.
You can as well fight and conquer, coming out stronger and better. Yours might not be like my own, but you can fight it and overcome it, only when you become tired of the situation,and open up yourself to be helped, only then can you be free.
Thank you very much for reading through ❤️
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