Chapter 2 : The Answer To All

“It was when I fell in love with the wrong person. It hit me hard because I loved her so much and thought that she was the one. I did not expect it to turn out that way, so I was shocked. As time kept moving on, all the anxiety came back, and finally, depression set in,” he replied with a solemn tone.

Depression happens due to a lot of factors. Love, surprisingly, is one of them, with the obvious example of love failure. Love failure can actually cause people to feel depressed due to low self-esteem and confidence level. The feeling of insecurity is also one of it.

While he started explaining about his situation briefly, I could hear his voice trembling as though he wanted to burst out with tears.

“Everything fell apart and I could feel the crippling depression. It was a heartbreaking situation that led me to depression,” he said.

“No worries, I got my ways in overcoming them, or else I would not be coming out and meet you,” he said.

“Then, what will you do when you want to overcome those feelings?” I kept on asking.

“Usually I would play video games or play music. My guitar is my favorite as I can groove around with different kinds of rock music with it. As for video games, stealth and action genre will be my interested ones.” he replied.

He added on that the thought of moving on is what makes him feel better.

“Some people find it hard to move on and will have a lasting negative effect on them. I believe we cannot entirely cure depression, some part of it is still there somewhere in our mind,” he added.

Cady Teh, an educational psychologist, has the same concept on this statement of depression not being cured entirely as well.

“Depression can be permanent, as depression cannot be fully cured and it may strike back if anything bad or unfortunate happens,” she said.

However, she added that certain medications and cure can be applied to these patients to help them cope with their lives.

“Depression can still be treated,. In fact, 80 to 90 per cent of the patients are being cured. Certain cures can be given to the patients to firstly control their situation and calm them down, then only bring them out of depression,” she said.

She explained that treatments and medications are given based on the levels of depression.

“Psychotherapy and counselling, which is also known as talk therapy will be best mild depression patients. Medications like anti-depressants will be given to patients with moderate or severe level of depression. Electro convulsive therapy (ECT) will be  for patients in a very severe depression, which is the worst case,” she said.

The more I heard of the medications that surprised me, the more I feel lucky that Nero does not require such medications to help with his depression.