Depression and Anxiety
Last year this month, I reflected on the periods of depression I’ve experienced in my life. These periods have happened after the passing of loved ones, because of past trauma and sometimes I don’t even know the reasons why. Today as I look back, I see those moments not so much as times of depression as a label, but as times of pain. I say that because I feel like there are different connotations of those words in our world and society at present time. People take the word pain more seriously than anything mental health related. I know this because I still don’t take mental health as seriously as I do any physical pain and it’s a process. But the mind and the body should be treated as one and the same. They are two bodies that make up a whole. Depression is pain. Most of the time, for me, I feel like its what happens when I choose to repress my emotions and “try to be happy, no matter what happens.” This mentality is what causes people to live in a sort of artificial world ...