I suffer Depression.
It started 15 years ago, a few months after I started working a few hrs with men inside maximum security jails.
Before that, I was a picture of health.
I take my little white pill every night before bedtime.
Also my poor mother had it, my brother has it...and 2 of his sons had it and they committed suicide.
My eldest son has it, and I think also my middle son shows signs of it.
My youngest son, is the total opposite!
He is the most happy guy on the planet, and has no problems with life at all.
Depression a.k.a. ''Black Dog' is the worst!
I would be able to cope with the normal illness, but depression is intimidating.
One can think something is living inside your head.
I thank God for a wonderful doctor, and my little white tablet every single night.
People have little education even today if you ask them about it.
For me, it just makes me see the world in a few ways, if it shows it's very ugly head.
1.I may wake feeling as if the world is coming to an end.
2.Fear will grip me, all the time.
3.I can only see grey days.
4.All my happy thoughts are totally gone.
5.More Fear, and more and more.
My first point to get it to go away, is Pray.
I pray until I feel better.
Plus
my tablet.
Both work extremely well...What causes depression is:
The neurotransmitter function is
disrupted.
Neurotransmitters are chemicals that carry signals from one part of the brain to
the next.
There are many neurotransmitters serving different purposes. However, three
important ones that affect a person’s mood are serotonin, noradrenaline and dopamine.
In normal brain function, neurotransmitters interact with a series of nerve cells, with the
signal being as strong in the second and subsequent cells as it was in the first.
With my brain my neurotransmitters fail to function normally, so
that the signal is either depleted or disrupted before passing to the next nerve cell.
Simple, so the tablet I take helps greatly.
Praying is also such a help for me,and I become very much at peace.
p.s...yes still going into jails, and feeling fine when I do!