The big unknown, the depression.
A week in a consultation was all I needed to notice that depression is a very common disease in our society.
I specially remember the case of a men who had a grateful life. He and his wife were going to be grandparents soon but he was very depressed. His life was happy because he had done many improvements so I was shocked because I couldn't imagine how was him when he was bad. He was trying to talk without crying, even talking about happy things. He also made a joke but he was not laughing. His wife explained that he seemed to be happy with everybody but when he arrived at home, he couldn't even move from a small sofa, he was deeply sad because of no known reason. In fact their friends were shocked when he finally told them that he was depressed, he had everything in life....
What I try to say with this is that you don't need to have big problems like break-up a relationship, do not find a job that really motivates you neither to loose someone. What you feel in these cases is sadness, which is a normal reaction of the human being. But the depression is more than that...
Kevin Breel explains in his video his own personal experience about having depression: (http://www.ted.com/talks/kevin_breel_confessions_of_a_depressed_comic#t-592349)
Depression is something that takes you apart of your normal life, is a continual worry about things, is the inability to be happy but, as he states, the problem is that there is still an stigma in our society
"if someone breaks his arm, you ask how is him and you sign his/her plaster, but what are you supposed to do when someone tells you that he/she has a mental illness and has depression?"
Depression is not well seen, people do not know how to act so they prefer to be apart of the situation living you more alone trying to solve your problem.
With this post I try you to to be concern about the necessity of understanding better this disease which is the first world cause of disability according to the OMS and which many people suffer without being recognized such it.
Here I attach you a link to the webpage of the OMS were you can read some useful information about what is depression and types of it: http://www.who.int/mediacentre/factsheets/fs369/es/
To end this, here you have another link of an "poetry" explanation of depression. I really get impressed the first time I show it.
Paula, your honest and impressing testimony is a really good way to understand depression and to put on a "depressed patient skin". They are claiming not to ignore them!! What a thought provoking matter!
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