Understanding Depression

Understanding depression and helping someone who is depressed.

It is hard to understand depression if someone never lived with it and struggled to overcome it. Depression is not something that you could say, “God is there for you, be happy!” or “You’ll go through it, that is life!”. Depression is a disease that requires proper medicine, and by medicine, I do not mean pills or one-day counselling!

I recap my days of struggling with depression that gave me nothing but discouragement and other forms of negativity. I did not speak to my parents and barely went to church and touched my Bible so I went backslid. It was hard, all I knew back then is to get a knife or a rope then kill myself! I remember some people who happened to know about my condition barely prayed for me and all they knew, giving me advices that did not make sense at all! There were two or three who sat down and listened, then walked alongside of me, coached me and prayed for me.

People with depression do not require cheap advice, they need someone to be there with them, sit with them and cheer them up! Least someone can do: pray! Action changes things, not just words and thoughts! If there is someone you know having depression, ask this question: what can I do for him/her? I know giving advice is nothing but I could do something!