If I had the power to create a cure, I'd create a cure for Depression.
There are countless diseases in the world; some incurable, others manageable. But behind every illness lies a state of mind that shapes our response to treatment.
When we walk into a doctor's office, we do so with the very hope that we shall get well soon enough. Sometimes that hope is shattered in seconds. One minute you are smiling faintly, the next you are drowning in despair after receiving life-altering news. A despair that often evolves into depression, which quietly amplifies the pain.
Chronic diseases are suckers! Take Cancer, if undetected early, it's a death sentence! Look at HIV, though manageable, it's a life baggage, stringing one to the grave. But beyond the physical pain, lies a mental burden that shatters us, one that removes the will to live. If a person had the will to live, maybe, cancer cells would retreat with treatment. Maybe, HIV wouldn't spread like wildfire. But the moment we lack the will, we surrender.
Depression is a silent killer. It is not always loud. It doesn't show up in CT scans, yet it is the main amplifier when it comes to health and death. Every day, another suicide is announced. Each time we're left wondering how we missed the signs.
In July, I lost a classmate to suicide. He was doing well in life, or so we thought until the night he decided he couldn't go on. His grandmother found him in her sitting room. I can't begin to imagine the pain his brother went through, and is still going through, let alone his grandmother's.
What if, just what if, he had been cured of that state of mind? What if the darkness would had been lifted? Maybe the thoughts that led him to that moment would have been countered. Maybe, he'd still be here.
That's why I would love to cure Depression. To give people the will to fight. To offer humanity hope in desperate times.
Thank you for reading❤️!
