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Depression Guide

Hello and welcome to the depression guide of ReflectingDarkness,

For all thoose who are intrested and want to know more about depression
I made this special guide. Its made of diffrent pieces of information I found
on the site this guild is made for: http://ReflectingDarkness.come2me.nl/
Here I will try to give you a small idea of what depression is, how its caused,
who can get it and what to do when you get it. If you have anything to add
then please let me know. (Please keep in mind that each person is different
and therefore nobody will fit in the same description.)

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What causes depression ?

Nobody can say what’s going on in someone else's head but some of the
things that lead to depression are the following:

- Abuse (sexually or mentally)
- Assault
- Rape
- Being laughed and made fun at
- The death of a loved one
- A broken friendship
- Losing your job
- Divorce
- Losing a lot of money
- Feeling used, worthless and loveless

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What to do ?

Since everybody is different there is, in my opinion, no real solution for depression. Also the fact that depression many times leads to other mental disorders makes it complicated to think of a solution, adding the fact that there are different forms of depression. To find out more about these forms and other metal disorders which often come from depression you can take a look at the 'Helpful sites' pages I made. Anyway as I said I think there is no clear solution. Though I do believe there are some things so decrease the numbers of people who get/are depressed. Like for example, teaching people about this. I noticed a lot that people think it’s a way to get attention or an extra day free of work/school, which is totally not true. The fact that mostly teenagers get depressed is for me prove that society makes it harder and harder for teenagers to just be alive. Children are supposed to be innocent right? Well they aren’t. They life each day surrounded by the messages of the media about how and who they should be. Its making them feel like their never going to be enough! That should stop. By teaching people around the world that depression is a real serious thing and by decreasing the stress in the life of mostly teenagers but also everybody else are 2 steps in the right way. I think.

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