Mental health awareness: take care of yourself today.

So I think everyone experiences unhappiness at some point in time on their life, I just don't think normal humans will live their whole life without getting hurt, sad or pained at some point, and it staying for longer is what I personally call depression. When you don't escape that temporary state, it becomes long-term.

And when you stay unhappy long enough, that unhappiness becomes your new reality. Sometimes it gets so intense that it impacts how you live, how you work, how you show up in the world especially people around you, you have no idea because they're showing up to parties.

They're going to work, smiling at their bosses, laughing with their friends. But internally, they're unhappy in their marriages, unhappy in their jobs, unhappy with their finances.

But we mostly don't call it depression because they're functioning and managing. And that's the thing about depression. It's not always loud or visible.

Most depressed people are the ones who show up, do the work, and hide it so well that nobody sees it, sometimes too, it's just probably being too aware and conscious.

Being excessively aware, being deeply thoughtful, thinking about things that the average person doesn't think about, looking at life from a realistic perspective instead of a positive one, all of that, that's actually a mild form of depression.

And here's the scary part.

It can graduate into something much more severe. I know that sounds counterintuitive. We celebrate awareness, but honestly knowing too much can be damaging as well.

Deep thinking is a state of being excessively aware. And the side effect, the real cost, is that when you're aware of yourself, aware of your finances, aware of your reality, aware of life in general, you become prone to depression, because you might even be thinking of the future, and you're not even guaranteed to get there.

This is why some of the brightest minds I know are depressed. sometimes knowledge, real, honest knowledge about how things actually work isn't always good, for example since I learned the magnitude of my own diagnosis, I've never stop thinking of the worst, and it's painful.

Being a deep thinker means you're applying your highest level of self-awareness to everything. To your life, to society, to the world. But depression gets labeled as a mental disorder, I'm not saying it isn't, I just think a lot more people go through it, and to me it is just a longer state of being sad.

When someone is broke for a long time, they become depressed.

When someone is chronically sick, they become depressed. When someone loses a loved one, they become depressed, sometimes it's longer sometimes it's shorter, everyone losses a loved one, that's why I think at some point, everyone has been depressed, people just don't like to see it that way.

It's a bold word and it carries a lot of stigma, and I honestly wonder why people are stigmatized for being so even though we know that almost everyone we've known has been sad for a long time in their lives. I hope we raise awareness more, and show empathy, it's a tough world out there