Depression Does It Have A Purpose
We all struggle with depression from time to time. An aliment as common as that of the common cold, only lasting longer sometimes much longer.
And today with medical intervention it too can be treated much the same, a few pills everyday and some "Chicken Soup for the Soul," books bearing the similar effect of chicken broth on your cold.
Though just as colds have many strains, so does depression. With each cold virus our body builds a strength of immunity to that strain of virus. We will not catch the same cold twice. Is there a possible similarity to our ability to overcome, survive and conquer strains of depression, and thus form an immunity to that strain, or equipped us more readily for a new?
The baby blues, or (postpartum) is a common depression brought on after child birth. In different forms it can bring health risk to mother and baby. Though in mild forms, could it be a necessary part of a women's mental, emotion bond with her child? May it in fact be a needed emotional state?
I have had many forms of depression in my life, it is with realization, overcoming it, that life breaths new purpose and appreciation. It is an emotional barrier that once hurdled gives me more roses than thorns.
Had I not endured these and ran there course naturally, would I be who I am today. The mother I am, the wife I am, the daughter I am, the friend I am?
Or would I continue life, in a cycle of pill repressed emotion, as many do?
P.S.
I have never taken any form of drugs for my depression so I truly know not the affects. I am merely asking the question of is there purpose and growth from such an illness that has been overlooked, and understudied?
We all struggle with depression from time to time. An aliment as common as that of the common cold, only lasting longer sometimes much longer.
And today with medical intervention it too can be treated much the same, a few pills everyday and some "Chicken Soup for the Soul," books bearing the similar effect of chicken broth on your cold.
Though just as colds have many strains, so does depression. With each cold virus our body builds a strength of immunity to that strain of virus. We will not catch the same cold twice. Is there a possible similarity to our ability to overcome, survive and conquer strains of depression, and thus form an immunity to that strain, or equipped us more readily for a new?
The baby blues, or (postpartum) is a common depression brought on after child birth. In different forms it can bring health risk to mother and baby. Though in mild forms, could it be a necessary part of a women's mental, emotion bond with her child? May it in fact be a needed emotional state?
I have had many forms of depression in my life, it is with realization, overcoming it, that life breaths new purpose and appreciation. It is an emotional barrier that once hurdled gives me more roses than thorns.
Had I not endured these and ran there course naturally, would I be who I am today. The mother I am, the wife I am, the daughter I am, the friend I am?
Or would I continue life, in a cycle of pill repressed emotion, as many do?
P.S.
I have never taken any form of drugs for my depression so I truly know not the affects. I am merely asking the question of is there purpose and growth from such an illness that has been overlooked, and understudied?
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