An Event Which Can Inspire You about Life
2019.9.12 1:56am
I have never considered that depressive disorder could be so close to me since I realize that there are some people around me have suffered from this for a while. However, this inspires me to think about my life.
A few days ago, I was shocked by the news that my friend was diagnosed as moderate depression. Before this, he had told me that he doubted he might have the depressive disorder. At that time, I didn't think that his situation had been so worse thereafter I comforted him that he might just have some depressive emotions but not that serious disorder. I tried my best to help him, to divert his attention from negative things, but later, I realized that it didn't work, no matter how hard I tried to talk to him.
Actually, he is not the only one who is diagnosed as depression around me. During this summer holiday, I met an eleven-year-old girl. She took part in an English summer camp where I had my part-time job. One afternoon, she suddenly felt terrible headache. Her mom told us that her daughter carried the medicine with her. The girl took the medicine and I searched for information about it. I felt surprised that the medicine was for depressive disorder. She is only eleven years old!
I companied her for the whole afternoon. I tried every thing to make her feel happy, like watching funny short videos, talking about her favorite pets, eating some snakes, which her mom didn't allow her to in daily time. I even massaged her temple to relieve her pain while she was feeling severe headache, until the medicine drove her sleepy.
Her mom came and she thanked me a lot. And then shet old me a lot of things about her daughter's sickness. At first, I didn't believe that the girl really had the depressive disorder because I found that I also had the similar situation at her age. I started to suffer from migraine when I was ten years old, which endured for years. But basically I just reckoned this as migraine.
However, as I think it deeper, I might have had mild depressive disorder when I was about 10 years old. I have never thought why I suffered from severe migraine at that time but now I doubt that it may be because of the born of my little brother. I thought my parents were extremely biased and they didn't care about me anymore. As a child, I just felt that my brother took the love away and I got jealous.
As a matter of fact, this was not what I could control as a kid. Most of it was controlled by our unconscious activities of the brain. Since then, I realize that the showing up of mental diseases is not aimed at hurting people. On the contrary, it is for protecting people.
Taking my experience as an example, when I felt my love from my parents was going to be taken away, I attracted their attention by feeling sick. Because in mysub consciousness, I hold the view that this was a way to fulfill my need.
Nowadays, depression has become the fourth major disease in the world due to complex reasons but it has not received enough attention from people. I know I may feel depressive sometimes, but since I learn about what depression is, I don't fear it anymore. Furthermore, I know how to deal with negative emotions better so that I can live a better life.