Tag: Depression

Depression can return after treatment People often finish a period of depression treatment and expect a clean ending, like a broken bone that has healed or an infection that is gone. When depression lifts, there is relief, sometimes even a sense of disbelief that life can feel normal again. Then months later a dip begins, […]

Prevention is about habits not hype Depression has become so common that people speak about it casually, almost like it is an unavoidable part of modern life. The World Health Organisation has stated that hundreds of millions of people worldwide live with depression, which is a statistic that should sober anyone up because it shows […]

Depression Is Not Sadness Depression gets flattened into a cliché because people need a simple story. They want it to be “feeling down”, a bad week, a rough patch, something you can fix with a holiday, a new routine, a gym membership, a gratitude list, or a motivational video that someone swears “changed their life”. […]

When Your Mind Turns Against You and Nobody Sees It Everyone gets sad. Everyone has days where they feel flat, stressed, disappointed, or emotionally drained. That’s not depression, that’s being human. Depression is different because it doesn’t behave like a normal emotion. It doesn’t rise and fall with life events in a predictable way. It […]

Depression is one of the most common illnesses people deny until it has stolen years of their life, because it does not arrive with a cast on your arm or a fever on a thermometer, it arrives as a slow draining of colour, energy, and interest, while the world still tells you to snap out […]

Depression Is A Real Illness And South Africans Are Still Getting It Wrong Depression is one of those words people throw around like it is a mood, a bad day, or a personality type, and that casual way of speaking has consequences. If you are depressed and the people around you treat it like laziness, […]