Accepting that feeling
I came across an article in Times Of India titled whether and how you should communicate about your mental health to your partner. For a long time I used to think depression comes from certain trigger and it is mainly about feeling sadness and it goes away with time. I used to experience certain kind of negative emotion during early years of my life and I used to tag that as 'sadness' and used to blame external factors as its cause. Some times I used to rebuke myself for over thinking and feeling down even when there was no apparent external reason of feeling low. Soon I discovered diversion and disassociation from the current environment are the best medicines to recover. Until recent years, sharing this feeling was out of question for me mainly due to the stigma attached to mental illness. Then I started reading about bunch of celebrities who admitted of going through mental issues and the diverse range of illnesses possible in this domain. I understood every human being goe...