Causes of Depression and How to Cure or Avoid Them

Depression is a state of the mind that drains a lot of energy from the brain cells and often results in physical weakness and inability of the affected person to organize his / her thoughts towards accomplishing or managing a particular objective.

Depression is very bad to the human person because if not properly managed and as early as possible, it will go beyond what the average thinking being believes to be. More often than we know, depression has led to people taking undesired actions that they never might have thought of if they are in absolute control of their conscious brain system. Some of the offspring of depression are Suicide, anger, hatred, drinking and / or smoking, assault, raping, ill health (heart attack, HBP, etc.), weakness of the body and inability to produce healthy thoughts, etc.

MAJOR CAUSES OF DEPRESSION

1.       Helplessness: People who have been in a stage in life that they needed help and nothing as coming up will understand what I am talking about. At this stage, their family couldn’t offer a bit of it let alone friends not even to talk of others from the outside arena. At this stage all hope of escaping the need for the help proved abortive, thereby resulting to helplessness. You will find out that the person who is going through this state of helplessness will eventually be depressed.

What to Do: Don’t allow the situation to weigh you down, not even when it is something that might claim life. Just believe in yourself and the ability of impossibility turning to possible. Stick to information that will boost your self-esteem. Do some research about the cause of that issue and try finding solutions. Remember the words of Napoleon Hills that says, “What the mind can conceive and believe it can achieve.”

2.       Abuse (Physical/Sexual): Any form of abuse will at a stage depressed the victim. That is certainly you should be at alert to avoid their occurrence anytime in the future. If you are a house-help, you will often experience this form of abuse. It could manifest in the form of physical (hard) labor, molestation and the like or it could come in the form of sexual harassment. In whichever case, you don’t have to allow it result to depression.

What to Do: If you are under labor imposed on you by someone / something, all you have to do is to develop the right mindset that will enable you go through the hardship with minimal negative effect on your mental faculty. Don’t consider it to be the end for you. Believe that one day you will call it history. And if you are sexually molested, you have to find a way out of it. It is fatal to be used as sex beast especially in a forceful means. If you have another location where you can relocate to then do just that but if you don’t, consider seeking help from human right organization, NGOs and Churches / religious leaders. If nothing is working, don’t give up continue trying. Above all, avoid negative singing (thoughts) and embrace the opposite.

3.       Life Frustration: Many individuals dance according to life’s tune instead of living their own life the way they want to. This often lead to depression and you have to fight it with full force. Do not allow life circumstances to make you an object of mockery because you will not be happy with the result you will get.

What to Do: Try by all means legal to find something doing. You know that an idol mind is the devil’s workshop. You can always beat this stress by keeping yourself busy with anything legal that can put food on your table. Avoid total dependency. If you seat at home and expect monthly salary, things might not move smoothly as you desire. Therefore, you can choose o be independent by investing the little have (get) into what will generate something better. If you don’t have any source of income currently, offer to do (if possible) the least job around your hood. It is better living for something than nothing is.

4.       Parental Factor: Some parents who don’t have enough to care for their family, will likely distribute their income in favor of a particular child who to them will do better that others in life. When situations like this exists, those around don’t seem to know the problems hidden around it until later in future when almost everyone must have grown adult. It is therefore important that you consider as a parent the level of favoritism you implement in taking care of your children’s needs. Children are characterized by straightforward thought pattern and consider what they are thought the final and the only accurate. But we seem not to know much about the fact that children also learns from nature and that they have the potential of perceiving ill treatment directed to their well being. Those who are not favored in the distribution of family possessions will like get depressed because they think they not born equal with the favored or that they are just been deprived of their right. Since they don’t have control over how family possessions are managed, they continue to think and ponder on how it has been affecting them individually and the best it can result to is depression. Parents should take caution.

What to Do: Take things of the world for granted. Do not consider the situation to be the worst that could ever happen to you instead allow yourself to be as an example to others by working smarter to make the best for yourself in spite the fact that you were not giving much attention from your parents. And for parents, if you must favor a particular child, learn to convince the others to understand that yes you have to do it that way. If they fail to understand, you can go ahead with what you believe to be the best for them but ensure “it the best and nothing but the best”.

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