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Stigma & Facts

The thing about depression is...it's a mental illness.

Depression is often viewed as something that someone pretends to have in order to get attention/sympathy from others. However this may be true in some cases, this is not the case when it truly is clinical depression. People with depression are suffering. They are struggling every day just to try and live a 'normal' life; it's a battle to cope.

 

Stigmas stand for depression as follows

  1. Depression is shameful; keep it hidden

  2. Depression makes you incapable of working

  3. Depression is merely caused by chemical imbalance

  4. Depression can be controlled if the person would just get control of their emotions

  5. Depression is just because you are thinking things over too much

  6. Depression can go away on its own

  7. Depression is easy to get rid of, just stop being so depressed

  8. Depression is all in your head

These are all stigmas, and they are NOT TRUE. Depression is a very serious mental illness. People who suffer with it cannot control their emotions the same way someone without depression would. Depression puts a dark cloud on life, it does not allow people to function the way someone without it would. Depression is nothing to be ashamed about. Research shows that depression not only affects you mentally, but also physically. The thoughts and constant mental battle wears down the brain and drags down the body. This is also resembled in the book where Mattia and Alice feel they cannot go on in life, they think about ending their own lives. Mattia even cuts himself in the middle of his science class. Nothing interests either of them anymore. This stands true for people with depression. Depression cannot just go away on it's own. With a doctor's help, medication, and therapy-it is very possible to cope with it. Over time the symptoms will begin to disappear. End the stigma over depression. Depression hurts.

"Depression Hurts"

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