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🚩Depression

The worst thing about depression is that you might not even notice it. You might never be able to pin down your chronic sadness, your habitual dislike of socializing, your short temper to depression. Chances are you have, like others, internalized the most common reaction to it – “get over it”. Depression is seen as a first world problem, a sign of mental or emotional weakness. We try to brush it under the carpet, living in denial and telling ourselves it's just a phase. Truth is depression can affect anybody; in fact, people with a higher level of resilience and strength are even more prone because they hold up for as long as they can, stretching their tolerance limits to the extreme. Giving up is not an option. And when it hits, it hits hard. With the kind of work stress, social media pressure and fragmented relationships we have in the modern world, depression is all too real a thing and means that you are only human. You might be good at what you do, you might b...