Thoughts about depression

Depression is not a matter to be laughed at. It is a mental disorder that everybody should watch out for, especially as it can really mess things up. In fact, it has taken a lot of lives already. And this year, quite a lot of millennial couldn’t even make it to Christmas nor Halloween because depression has already claimed their lives. It is quite a sad though, the millennial nowadays can be known to be the people who think it is best to die rather than continue battling with whatever they may be feeling because of this harmful thing as depression. Death by hanging, death by the slicing of wrists, death by jumping off a building’s window, numerous feet above the ground, and many other successful suicidal attempts. It is just way too amazing when you realize that there are just a lot of ways for ending up life. And they do it with courage too. So, why not use the same courage and the same resourcefulness to fight back at what life is throwing at them? Why succumb to death? They fou...

Suicides, self-inflicting pains, feelings of hopelessness, inferiority, and a continuous and seemingly endless battle between man and himself. You just cannot be certain how depression can affect a person. Based merely on observation, most millennials are facing this same struggle. There has already been a lot of victims of depression and it is a matter that should never be ignored. While some people are dismissing the matter at hand in a seemingly dangerous manner, there is always going to be a community that would try to educate others about it and even discourage anything of the like to happen again. Just like what has happened only recently in the longest running noontime show, Eat Bulaga, during one of their segments, Joye de Leon, one of its veteran hosts has released a statement about depression being a "make-up story and that it is only for the rich to have. If the poor have it, then there's no hope at all." This has, in fact, made a noise in the social m...