Feelings: part one..depression causes and care
Feelings.
Everyone has them. You, your mother, your neighbor down the street,
even that criminal who stole rs50,000 from u. But what are feelings? How
do we associate them to our lifestyle? Why are they so important? Many
of us have felt a combination of the most common feelings. We have been
angry, sad, frustrated. We have been depressed, worried too often, had
unexplained and uncontrolled fears. We have hated ourselves a time or
too, and hated the person who ran us off the road because they were in a
hurry to get to some place. The fact is, feelings are not going to go
away on their own. Feelings are extremely important to our self-being,
and without them we might as well consider ourselves robots. Feelings
are produced by chemicals in the brain which in turn can cause us to
feel various emotions. However, what most people don’t come to realize
is that certain factors attribute to these feelings.
For the time being lets stick to our main topic Depression
People with clinical depression are often misunderstood by friends and family, especially when it appears that things are going well in their lives. No one understands why this person is depressed or sad. The advice ,if anyone cares to give, given to them is: Cheer up! Just smile! Don’t let it get to you!you deserve a better life! wait for something good to happen! So stop for a moment and think about this.
Diabetes is a disease that is caused by a problem with the pancreas, having to do with a hormone called insulin. There are many different causes for diabetes, including poor lifestyle choices, poor eating habits, poor physical and emotional health, a family history (genetics) of the disease, etc. Some people are more prone to it than others. Some people, when faced with identical circumstances, will never get diabetes, and some who do everything right will.
If someone has diabetes, would you tell them to cheer up and get over it? No, you would most likely tell them to go to the doctor, and if need be, change their lifestyle, eating habits, sleep habits, and perhaps in extreme cases, to take medication. But still those friends need special thanks as nothing comforts as much as feeling of being cared.
Depression is nothing of which to be ashamed. It is partially controllable, but not completely. Learning to change lifestyles and attempting to keep negative influences out of your life can indeed help where depression is concerned, but it cannot prevent bouts of depression flare ups, just like other cyclical medical disorders can flare and go into remission. Depression can go into remission of sorts, where someone who suffers from depression can have depression free moments, ranging from a few days, to weeks or even months before another episode flares.
Now, try if you can, to picture feelings like that every single day of your life, day in and day out. Think about what it must be like when nothing makes you happy, nothing makes you smile, nothing brings you pleasure…nothing goes the way you expected it to be and then extend that out to where you feel that way for months and months, and try to picture how you u’d feel emotionally, physically, mentally. Considering this happens with someone for long enough time , wouldn’t he be like what people call depressed or mentally ill.
Question here is not regarding what terminology should be used, but what are our responsibilities for them? Should we keeep on reminding them of their mental condition..friends i assure u one thing that this is going to make them fall under depressed category clinically even if they are not or are recovering from the condition. It’s very easy to hurt someone specially those who have shared something with you.bt should you? Isn’t it going to break social contract of confidentiality inherent in friendship.
Some people enjoy making fun of others, they are more than happy in embarrassing someone which in extreme cases can bring tears. Most of the people call it sense of humor or fun stuff. But is it? you are getting happiness by making someone sad. Do u know y because u don’t have ability to find ur happiness in someone elses. Friends your real sense of humor will be tested when u need to make a weeping person laugh, a sad person happy and bring someone out of depressed mood.
Try someday feeding some hungry people, serving water to a thirsty one, wiping tears of someone with your palms, holding someone’s arms and holding someone in your arms when needed .Try sacrificing your happiness for others. I can give it in written ,that day you will be more satisfied than ever. You will feel more self-esteemed than any day in your life specially those when you enjoyed making fun of others, when you didn’t care about someone’s suffering after hurting him. Do you know why? Its simply because you are human and humane inside you will tell you “thank you dear for keeping me alive within you”.
I will keep on feeding humane inside you with my blogs , although i don’t need to but i will…stay tuned
For the time being lets stick to our main topic Depression
People with clinical depression are often misunderstood by friends and family, especially when it appears that things are going well in their lives. No one understands why this person is depressed or sad. The advice ,if anyone cares to give, given to them is: Cheer up! Just smile! Don’t let it get to you!you deserve a better life! wait for something good to happen! So stop for a moment and think about this.
Diabetes is a disease that is caused by a problem with the pancreas, having to do with a hormone called insulin. There are many different causes for diabetes, including poor lifestyle choices, poor eating habits, poor physical and emotional health, a family history (genetics) of the disease, etc. Some people are more prone to it than others. Some people, when faced with identical circumstances, will never get diabetes, and some who do everything right will.
If someone has diabetes, would you tell them to cheer up and get over it? No, you would most likely tell them to go to the doctor, and if need be, change their lifestyle, eating habits, sleep habits, and perhaps in extreme cases, to take medication. But still those friends need special thanks as nothing comforts as much as feeling of being cared.
Depression is nothing of which to be ashamed. It is partially controllable, but not completely. Learning to change lifestyles and attempting to keep negative influences out of your life can indeed help where depression is concerned, but it cannot prevent bouts of depression flare ups, just like other cyclical medical disorders can flare and go into remission. Depression can go into remission of sorts, where someone who suffers from depression can have depression free moments, ranging from a few days, to weeks or even months before another episode flares.
Now, try if you can, to picture feelings like that every single day of your life, day in and day out. Think about what it must be like when nothing makes you happy, nothing makes you smile, nothing brings you pleasure…nothing goes the way you expected it to be and then extend that out to where you feel that way for months and months, and try to picture how you u’d feel emotionally, physically, mentally. Considering this happens with someone for long enough time , wouldn’t he be like what people call depressed or mentally ill.
Question here is not regarding what terminology should be used, but what are our responsibilities for them? Should we keeep on reminding them of their mental condition..friends i assure u one thing that this is going to make them fall under depressed category clinically even if they are not or are recovering from the condition. It’s very easy to hurt someone specially those who have shared something with you.bt should you? Isn’t it going to break social contract of confidentiality inherent in friendship.
Some people enjoy making fun of others, they are more than happy in embarrassing someone which in extreme cases can bring tears. Most of the people call it sense of humor or fun stuff. But is it? you are getting happiness by making someone sad. Do u know y because u don’t have ability to find ur happiness in someone elses. Friends your real sense of humor will be tested when u need to make a weeping person laugh, a sad person happy and bring someone out of depressed mood.
Try someday feeding some hungry people, serving water to a thirsty one, wiping tears of someone with your palms, holding someone’s arms and holding someone in your arms when needed .Try sacrificing your happiness for others. I can give it in written ,that day you will be more satisfied than ever. You will feel more self-esteemed than any day in your life specially those when you enjoyed making fun of others, when you didn’t care about someone’s suffering after hurting him. Do you know why? Its simply because you are human and humane inside you will tell you “thank you dear for keeping me alive within you”.
I will keep on feeding humane inside you with my blogs , although i don’t need to but i will…stay tuned
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