Mental health is extremely underrated in our society. Unlike those severe physical diseases that take a toll on human life, you cannot see noticeable symptoms in the case of depression. And just because there is no change in one’s bodily tendencies, doesn’t mean the pain in the mind and the ache in the heart is even a little less than a tragic ailment.
The worst scenario here is that we cannot feel even 1% of the trauma a person in depression is going through. They don’t share their agony with anyone and lock themselves behind the bars of desolation. They fight their fears of melancholy all alone. With no one having besides who could pay heed to, they mourn that state of mental torture alone. The life of a person suffering from chronic depression is no less than a fatal disorder in itself. It’s a mental disease that requires equal amount of attention as any patient suffering from an infection would need.
Why the hypo virus ? Another reason for Depression!
The irony is that these survivors will have to combat the situation all alone. And what does the society call them? They corner them and mock the dead with words like ‘a weak person’, ‘a loser in life’, ‘worthless’, ‘a coward’ etc. We all are sympathetic towards those innocent patients in hospitals who are struggling with their health and life. They have been a prey to unwanted attacks on their body due to ‘unknown external factors’. However, could we ever show even 1% of the empathy to those innocent people suffering from depression? Were those attacks of mockery, shaming, defaming, disgusting, and more upon them from the ‘unknowns’? Heights of the ‘hypovirus‘! Wasn’t the medicinal cure of their mental illness, a form of care, compassion, warmth and support they needed from their so-called loved ones around?
Don’t you think showing that tender loving care (TLC) could prevent a depression survivor from taking a drastic step such as suicide?
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Busting the Mental-Health Hypocrisy!
Above percentage highlights the gravity & intensity of the epidemic and not the quantity of their occurrence.
So, STOP Calling the people suffering from Depression with filthy words like “Mad“, aka “Pagal“. If you can’t solve the problems they are dealing with in day-to-day life, at least don’t aggravate them by being a significant part of.
Here’s my poem on depression to portray every suffering behind the death of Sushant Singh Rajput, the “M.S. Dhoni: The Untold Story” fame and many other similar warriors of fate.
Stabbed life, shattered dreams
Sinking hopes, gloom umpteen.
Every little pain unheard,
Every damn suffering unseen.
All the baffling cacophony around,
ushered the inner silence to scream
Battling the demon inside all alone,
Mouths to blabber, no shoulders to lean.
That foundation built in eyes with gleam
Flabbergasted to watch it melt like cream
With every new dawn and indulging yawns
All we would brim with, was a wishful beam
Every little pain, still unheard
© Maitreni Mishra
Every suffering, still unseen
All we could see, AN UNTOLD STORY
of that gushing bloodstream ?
Alas…
Depression is Real, Depression is Fatal.
Savage, no more!
“I’m reckless, yes, but not thoughtless”
© Sushant Singh Rajput
Sushant Singh Rajput quotes will be etched in our hearts forever…
Survivor for some, but a ‘Warrior’, definitely for all…
That having said and done, can we stop judging anymore?
Rather, be generous in expressing our concern for the people in pain?
Can we be a little more thoughtful about the ones who need us but cannot seek help for the fear of those judgements?
Remember… The answer can make or break another life at the brim of emotions.
RIP, SSR
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