Reaction to My Depression

My Depression (n.d.) shows how serious depression can be for a person and it does so in a manner that really helps to eliminate much of the strangeness and taboo nature of the issue of depression. It explains how people experience depression in a way that allows the viewer to sympathize with and understand the subject. This is important because depression is often something that goes unappreciated. People think that if a person is depressed it is just because the individual wants to be depressed and that all that the person has to do is snap himself out of it and be happy again. The video shows that this is clearly not the case. Depression is much more serious than that. It can take hold of a person just like a virus can: if one’s defenses are weak it can strike and the individual is basically like a hostage to the depression and requires a hostage negotiator (a counselor or therapist) to help deliver him from the depression.

There should be no shame in suffering from depression because the video shows how real and impactful depression can be. It can completely take control of a person’s life and debilitate the individual. It can cause the person to be unable to work or to live in a normal manner. It can strain families and relationships because others begin to think that the depressed person is unhappy or unsatisfied because of them. But that is not the root cause of the depression. The root cause is often unknown and has nothing to do with one’s surroundings but is rather the result of an issue within the person’s mind—and issue that will not go away but plays constantly like a broken record over and over again deep within the person. Usually the person is not even aware that this broken record is playing over and over again, though the effects of it are felt in the person’s mood and mind. The video explains all of this very well.

References

My Depression. (n.d.). Retrieved from https://albany.kanopy.com/video/my-depression