If You Can't Help, Don't Hurt

This isn't just a phrase you read and pass, it means more than it seem. If you can't be of help to someone who needs it, why hurt that someone? People hurt people in so many situations where they could have helped or rather do nothing, it's happening everywhere.

Depression is an illness that people take lightly maybe because we've never been through it before or we don't really care about it but it's happening among our fellow humans. People are going through a lot and fighting depression in so many areas while some who couldn't get help and couldn't control the illness resorted to suicide.

Depression is a period unhappiness or low morale which last longer than several weeks and may bring up the idea of self injury or suicide.

Depression has no benefits and it is could be caused by Lack of love of oneself, loneliness or negative thinking. In essence, depression bring about hurt or loss of lives. My reason for all these is that people are not helping in these situations, people tend to overlook this illness when someone is facing it and then spread the bad news of the person exiting from life walls.

It went all over the news a week ago that a 16years old girl committed suicide because her boyfriend cheated on her. Everything about that story was just so wrong to me, I couldn't help but think of the girl's thoughts before her death. Maybe she didn't have anyone she could talk to about what she was feeling, she was very young and a young girl at her age is supposed to have someone guiding her closely but things didn't end well as she took her own life. Depression may have been involved in this but people kept talking about how foolish she was to have taken her life like that... There's more to that, we could do better.

Another story about a second year university boy who committed suicide because his course mates laughed at him for being unable to spell "Computer technology" during lectures. You could imagine the level of depression he was going through before the incident with his fellow course mates. He may have been facing family issues, emotional stress and more but was trying hard to deal with it until the mockery in class and he decided to end everything by taking his life. Their mockery made things worse for him.

If you can't help, don't hurt. Why mock at someone when you could help correct their mistakes and show some love to them. Things would have surely be different if the boy didn't face such a situation they created, anyone would have been in his position finding it hard to spell a word they knew very well but it turned out to be the boy who may have been facing a lot before then.

Depression is a very deadly illness that we must fight against by showing more love or doing nothing to make things worse for those going through it. It's either we show them love or we do nothing for them, hurting them more is way out of line.

Be a lifesaver by showing love and be mindful of what you say or do to people around you.