of depression from the point of view of
a depressed person steps on oxygen on
your road to recovery and ask but not
least what’s to do when around a person
who has depression many who don’t know
how to deal with it
first things first what is depression
depression is alike in brain activity
symptoms include lack of sleep loss of
appetite not interesting takes action
usually for aging exciting and the rose
on together step number one on my image
for a month I have to introduce myself
again my name is Will and sassy pop I’m
15 years old I was born and raised in
Saudi Arabia I only moved here six
months ago I have three older sisters
happiness and two very loving parents I
enjoy watching anime I love you biryanis
my favorite day of dough because Monday
what else is there
my favorite color is purple all in all
and I am what you would call an average
teenager other than the fact that I’m
depressed and I happen
five years now what I’m getting to is
that there is absolutely no criteria for
a person to be depressed as in it can
literally be anyone therefore you
shouldn’t feel bad about heat in your
life just because everyone else says
it’s amazing or you shouldn’t feel
strange about how you feel differently
about things that other people find very
normal because other people’s opinion
doesn’t have the power to change how you
feel and how you feel is what really
matters
your life doesn’t necessarily have to be
jam-packed in tragic events for you to
feel like your existence is a tragedy
step number two do not deny if in shorts
that number one was it can be anyone’s
number two would eat can be you when I
first started feeling and showing the
sentence I mentioned but it was before
my brain was like transitioning to in
panic mode deny deny
everything well no I am so hungry and I
would basically show through down my
throat
once I was stopped littering and uh hmm
you know I’m thinking of unicorns my
eyes are closing I’m laying down
it’s definitely seat or and another
major meeting and very hard and at some
point my brain was like so used to it so
like freedom no no that’s not that’s not
real but at some point is functioning AB
you need disguise that sounds like they
were just going to arguing like you
are happy no numbers the taking action
well as an acquaintance once said when
it comes to the question Internet
oppression or any other mental illness
in general that’s when you find it most
advice because experienced people will
write a lot about it
the Internet’s but if you don’t have the
woods
terrific central to search or if you
tried and didn’t get any results I would
recommend seeing a psychiatrist or
therapist and if you’re underage this is
when an adult has to know it can be
anyone from a teacher to parents to an
older sibling but they should be
responsible they should be an adult and
I think that’s only creative anyways
chances are they won’t react the way you
want them to well good for me my sister
Lois and she told my parents so it was a
lot easier but other people like more
distant relatives and normal people in
this country in general don’t even think
of mental illness as illness as in the
during its translation in a heart for
the world depression is the word or dome
so honestly people here are not so
accepting about it and if it’s hard to
admit somewhere else would be even
harder here as a friend once but if
depression is considered a first woman
anyways I did end up seeing a
psychiatrist and I don’t want you to
judge all psychiatrists by my experience
but honestly I need to know my side
characters I don’t know maybe it’s
because people in this country respect
them a lot doctors general and think of
their very highly ones even the
psychiatrists that were very recommended
I honestly did not like at all I just
felt like there was any arrogance maybe
it was just because I was insecure about
talking about
so another person who I barely know at
all and the pills were even worse they
drained my energy not like I had an
energy but I had an emergency supply for
the world pens but now I learned Ivan
anyways I didn’t like it but your
experience hopefully would be different
number four is patience for number three
to work you will need number four as in
you’re probably not ready for a
psychiatrist your first fill probably
not anything for you and the side
effects are horrible and it takes a lot
of time to charge whatever code is going
to work or not so it’s going to take a
very long time and you will need to be
really patient you should trust and rely
on whatever it since you are relying on
a lot but at the same time not too much
please Isis at number five don’t have
expectations this is where I am right
now
okay I basically gave up on anything
everything and anything I’m just at the
standstill
I’m trying to find the solution and the
problem all with meaning and many people
are doing this immediately who needs to
know they’re going around on adventures
and do things I spend my food and I’m
not you know single bit honestly I’m
gonna find my solutions someday to
finish off things that you should and
should not do when I don’t know
depressed or some other person is my
very first anyways first of all when you
are asked to listen just listen as if
this is the tests okay this is what is
decided whatever just offend or not
because if you’re not and they’re
probably not talk to you seem way like
ever again first of all don’t judge at
all so judge just listen
second of all don’t try to relate their
situation with yours at all and third of
all in my opinion you should back off we
are told to back off as if a depressed
person lets you know they’re depressed
or leaves to around them even when you
know they’re depressed then they trust
you enough information and a person
asking you to back off it’s not in any
way up to be for help so don’t think
that you should stay because everyone
needs their privacy other than that
there are things that you should not do
in my opinion at all three things you
should never say to other first person
number one I understand you don’t you
never did and you never will understand
in person unless you were depressed or
unless you are depressed depressed
people don’t need your understanding
they need your acceptance you should
just do it up in a way number two
why don’t you just choose happiness in
smile this is so much
there’s the finest artists which I hold
back very far today anyways first of all
I never chose depression depression
which shows me and it’s haunting me a
stroke second of all you tell me to
smile I just told you my because secret
and your attorney
you’re pretending I don’t have that kind
of energy even my word supply is gone
number three and in my opinion the most
annoying it’s all in your head I’m not
sure about you but I know I can’t live
without my head that’s influenced my
speech please have a good afternoon
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