Depresion

Everything Changed

Depression is a mental illness that makes the person feel sad, helpless, melancholic and unhappy and in most of the cases they get suicides thoughts. I have seen firsthand what depression can do to a person. A few years ago my husband at the time, got depressed and everything fell through the cracks. His depression not only affected him, but it affected the whole family. Depression is a serious illness that affects not only the person’s emotions and health, but also everyone who is around him, or her.

Depression is hard on everyone not only the people who are sick, but the people who are around them too. I still remember the day I came home from the parks with my two little kids and my husband was just lying in the floor of the hallway saying he didn’t want to live anymore. I panicked; I didn’t know what to do. I had never dealt with that kind of situation, so I left my kids playing in the living room and I just sat there with him telling him that everything was going to be alright. After that I sent my kids to my mother’s house and a tried to help him get over whatever it was that was eating him alive. After a few days of him laying on the floor, a cousin of his and I got him to get up and talk a shower and at least sit in the living room. After that I thought things were going to get better, but they didn’t. A long time passed before things got better and I could always see that he was trying to fight his demons. His depression changed everything. I have no idea of what he went through and I know it most have been hell, but the people around him suffer too. His depression changed the whole dynamic of the family, from the man of the family he became some who need to be taken care.

While he was depressed, he started to get sick allot. There was always something new he was catching and sometimes the doctors did not know why, but in my point of view it always seemed harder to fight it than what it should. When he got out of his big depression episode, he seemed to get better and everything was alright at least for a while. The second time he got really depressed and was hospitalized they found out he had cancer and it was harder to beat. It seemed that depression was always a contributing factor to him being sick and then it made things harder with the cancer and he even tried to kill himself, so we can say that cancer is definitely worsen by depression.

Depression is like a cycle and at any moment can strike so I don’t think a person ever fully overcomes it. My father’s children has what I call episode he can be good for a short or long period of time, but he always get sick again. I am not sure if other people can overcome them; but after seeing him fighting the sadness and then giving in back to it, I believe it is always going to be there and that his demons aren’t going away forever.

Depression is a nasty and hard battle up hill. It takes

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