By: Ann Amollo
Depression is a mental illness that affects the behavioural changes of a person depending on the mood or feeling. The rate at which this illness of depression is increasing is making individuals to have many questions with no answers.
The record at which most of people who are being affected by this illness are the youths for instance, those in higher institutions. Depression can be caused by relationship problems, divorce, financial matters, unemployment, drug abuse and even health status of a person which contributes to stress.
There is no day from the news outlets where one would fail to hear a story of depression, more so in the university where a student may commit a suicide scene because of depression this could be as a result of may be relationship break ups or even lack of basic things like food and money to keep one way of moving. Most people fail to disclose their problems to other due to fair of what they share to people can become the topic of the day hence they prefer to stay with the problem in which at the end leads to depression.
This issue of depression should be something that should be talked about so that people may be free to express themselves on the problem they undergoing in which it results to creation of awareness on the negativity of depression that brings out.
Since depression is a mental illness it can be treatable that requires support, exercise that relieve mild depression, drug treatment where a doctor may prescribe antidepressants, psychotherapy which involves one-to-one counselling. Individuals who are undergoing the drug treatment should not stop taking the medication even if the symptoms have improve or unless otherwise the doctor have recommended you to stop taking the medication since it can lead to relapse(deterioration the body after improvement).
The universities institutions should have a counselling department where students will be free and able to share out their problems in order to receive help instead of one going to an extent of committing suicide because most people see this as a way of solving their problems. Let show love and care to people who are experiencing this mental illness because at the end we will be able to remove one from struggles and pain that one is facing.
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