People often view me as a “completely fine” person without problems of my own because they told me that my happiness was real as I always look so happy with the people around me and the fact that I rarely share painful situations with a lot of people means I’m completely all right. They were […]
depression
I am better than my addiction
I am currently living with my elder brother, my dad and my aunt. It all begin with the passing of my mum in 2007 when I was only 9 years old before my First Holy Communion. It started towards the end of 2014 to 2016, where my brother suffered from severe depression. It was due […]
Relate Let’s Talk: What depression feels like to me
What does my depression feels like? My depression threw me down a rabbit hole where time is irrelevant. I would lock my door and suddenly, four days had gone by! Three days without a proper shower. Four days of eating cereal, biscuits and tidbits. Four days of piling things up in my room and four […]
Not for anyone else’s sake but for my own.
Assalamualaikum/hello, My name is Tajul. I suffer from major depression. I’ve had it for quite some time now. I don’t remember how it started but I remember thinking about my past sins. All the wrongdoings that I did in my life. One day, it all came back to me. No! I wasn’t a thief, a […]
Dark Clouds, Blue Sky
I never realised I am mentally ill until I was prescribed anti-depressants & anti-psychotics. I had always thought my condition was normal- emotions and negative thoughts. It’s really hard to identify the start of the dark journey because I had been feeling that way for a very long time. I had no idea why I […]
Depression is not cool. It’s an illness.
Since the age of 17, I have seen an influx of teens self-diagnosing & mistaking the difference between depression and a common human emotion – sadness. More than just often, it has become a norm for most people to use this terms wrongfully on social media. Buckle up, time for some education. Depression, defined by […]
