Depression…

When you can’t get out bed but you cant sleep either.

When your body aches and your cold and need a hot shower but you can’t get up to get in it.

When you need water but cant move to reach because your body won’t.

When your tummy rumbles but you can’t eat because it wrenches from inside not allowing anything in from too much anxiety no space here.

When hot tears fall down your face and no words come out and your eyes become the tongue of your heart that no one understands.

When your too weak to get the help you need and hold on.

When you die and no one notices until you take your life.

Originally published at inspiritedminds.org.uk on December 22, 2015.

Aaliyah Shaikh| Inspirited Minds | Counsellor

Aaliyah is the founder of Rahmah Counselling, she is a Psychotherapeutic Counsellor, Educator, Thinker and advocate for gender and social justice. She holds a MEd in Child and Adolescent Psychotherapeutic Counselling from University of Cambridge (thesis title: An unconscious alchemy of the womb: How women’s (psychosocial and spiritual) experiences and feelings regarding menstruation and birth affect their attachment relationship with their child) and a MA in Muslim Community Studies from University of Loughborough in conjunction with Markfield Institute of Higher Education. Aaliyah worked as the youngest employed Muslim female Chaplain from the age of 24 for Imperial College NHS Healthcare Trust, St Mary’s Hospital for 6 years before training as a Psychotherapeutic Counsellor. She has also studied psychodynamic counselling at University of Leicester and has a Post graduate Diploma in Social Sciences amongst various other courses. Aaliyah founded Rahmah Counselling in 2012 and offered the first In-Schools Counselling project for Muslim schools in the UK as well as general counselling for the community.