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What makes people depressed?There are two main sorts of depression, the sort that comes from outside and the sort that comes from inside. From outside:
The outside sort is when something horrible happens outside of yourself, which makes life very difficult to cope with. Perhaps you fail your exams, or your parents start getting divorced, or a friend commits suicide - dreadful things that just make you want to curl up inside and cry for ever. This kind of depression is painful, but medically speaking, also normal. If you didn't feel pain, you wouldn't be human. Eventually, the biting sadness wears off as you talk to people about your feelings, as nicer things happen, as life just goes on. It's still there, like a scar, but it doesn't hurt so. From inside:
The second kind of depression is when something collapses inside yourself. Gloom and greyness descend on your life for no obvious reason - everything else might be fine, but you just can't see it that way. And if something slightly bad does happen, it feels like a crushing weight. This kind of depression is like an illness - like getting pneumonia or glandular fever. No one really understands why we get these depressed moods that come up from inside us. They are more difficult to cope with than the outside sort, and they may also take longer to go away. That makes them very difficult to talk about with other people. For a few people, the depression is so severe that it controls every part of their life, and makes it seem as if it's not worth going on. Talking is still the best thing to do, though. If you can say to someone you trust, 'look, I don't know why, but I feel really, really down, and I need to talk to someone', then that is the first step away from depression. What are the signs of depression? |
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