Although it is a very “common” disease that affects millions of people around the world, there are still myths about depression that need to be discredited.
Depression ends countless lives. Suicide rates have increased, particularly with the crisis and the inability of families to cover their expenses or the possibility of being seen on the streets.
- We often see depression as a state of sadness.
- But we couldn’t be more wrong.
- Today.
- You’ll discover the 7 most ingrained depression myths that glimpse a reality we may not know ourselves about this disease.
The first of these myths about depression says something we all know: when we are told that a person suffers from depression, we immediately think that he is very sad, nothing further from reality.
We all feel sad at certain times in life, but there is an abyss between sadness and depression, sadness is passing and passing. Sooner or later, he’s gone.
Depression is the opposite, isn’t it a passing thing, it’s something that goes hand in hand with many other things: apathy, feeling empty, pain?Depression does not come alone, but is accompanied by many other negative feelings that make your whole life gray.
Suffering from depression doesn’t mean you’re a weak person, when someone suffers from this disease, people see them as someone unable to face difficulties, as someone who is not strong enough to face life. Depression is a life-changing one. Psychological problem that affects us psychologically, biologically and socially.
Suffering from depression is not being weak, you didn’t choose to have depression!You don’t have a weak mind! This myth leads people to isolate themselves and suffer their illness in complete silence, to suffer even more, if possible.
Why shouldn’t depression affect the little ones?On the contrary, children and adolescents seem to have more and more problems, both inside and outside their homes. Broken families, bullying at school, trouble accepting, misunderstandings?
We do not know how much depression can affect children and adolescents, it is not known if it can be as strong as what adults suffer, what we do know is that many teenagers have already committed suicide, and it is not for a simple moment of sadness, but due to a difficult phase of depression.
Depression is not a passing thing, it is not something that disappears overnight, it is something that endures, that leads to something so painful and unbearable that sometimes even causes the person to commit suicide.
The person with depression needs professional help, because without it it is a little difficult to get ahead. Unless this person knows how to cope with the disease, professional help will be the way out.
Depression is not just any disease. It is a disease that destroys, destroys forces, hopes, the desire to live. Time doesn’t cure everything. Time doesn’t cure depression. Ignoring the disease doesn’t make her disappear.
Depression, far from what you might think, affects not only the mind, but also the body in general, insomnia, fatigue, chronic muscle aches, headaches, are some of the symptoms that can appear, if you think it is something that only exists in our head, almost as an invention, we know that it is a serious mistake. Depression isn’t just mental, it goes much further.
People who have never had contact with someone who has suffered depression may think about it a little superficially, but no one wants to make up for it and wants to have a disease as serious as depression.
One of the most ingrained myths about depression is unfounded. Depression affects men and women alike, it’s not just a women’s disease. We think of it when we think of it as a disease of weak people, as we mentioned earlier.
It’s true that depression affects women more than men, but that doesn’t mean men don’t. And yet it is true that depression in men is more dangerous. Men tend to hide depression better. But, one way or another, when a man is found to be suffering from depression, in some cases it is already a little late: suicide has already consolidated.
One of the most common depression myths among our acquaintances is that talking about the disease aggravates a person. Absurd! If we consider it a taboo subject, of course we will avoid touching it, but a person with depression needs to talk.
That is why they go to psychologists because their own family avoids talking about it, it is seen as something shameful, something that should not happen, something that we think will get worse if we talk about it, nothing is further from the truth. Taking an interest in the depressed person will allow you to accompany them and make them understand some of their behaviors.
Do you know any other depression myths that aren’t on this list?If so, share it with us. It’s time to eliminate all those lies we believe are true about this known but sometimes unknown disease.
Images courtesy of Louise Robinson.