Love Helps Prevent the Pain of Depression

During the week of International Women's Day, March 8, which should have been filled with joy for women, I was left speechless when I heard about a heartbreaking incident. A woman in Nam Dinh, suffering from depression, drowned her two young children in the river.

The press reported that her family confirmed that she was depressed and had quit her job. Seeing that she was feeling better, the family agreed to let her take her two children out. They did not expect such a tragic incident to happen.

I feel sorry for the two children and I also feel sorry for her, because surely, only because of illness could this woman have caused such a heartbreaking incident.

I am sadder because the unfortunate incidents caused by people with depression are not rare now. In Hai Duong in the past few years, sometimes people with depression commit suicide, sometimes people with depression commit crimes... I don't know if it's because information is more available, or because the number of people with depression and mental illness is increasing? In the community, whether it's public or not, people with depression and mental illness are everywhere.

Type the keyword "depression" in Google search, we know that according to the World Health Organization (WHO), every 20 normal people will have one person who has had a depressive episode in the previous year. Every year, an average of 850,000 people die from depression. Depression does not discriminate by gender or age, but the rate of depression in women is twice that of men...

The above information further shows the dangerous level of this disease in the present era.

I once met a young woman who had suffered from depression due to life events. She said that she overcame her depression because her parents had been close to her and closely monitored her psychology. There were times when, after she had overcome them, she read and researched again and realized how dangerous the disease was. There were times when she couldn’t sleep, her baby cried and she just wanted to let her baby go, carry her baby and wander out on the street… There were times when she constantly thought about her husband’s betrayal… If she hadn’t been closely monitored, or rather, supervised, by her parents’ every gesture, action, and psychological development, she wouldn’t have been sure if she could control her own actions.

I still remember, more than 4 years ago, when my father was diagnosed with dementia and early depression, I was not aware of the dangerous level of the disease. My mother was consulted by a private doctor and advised that it would be very difficult to accompany my father. Having witnessed my mother's perseverance and continuous treatment support over the past few years to prevent my father's condition from worsening, I understood the value of the care and support of relatives for someone who is unfortunately suffering from depression.

As women who have experienced psychological instability during childbirth, many of you must have seen the importance of care and sharing from loved ones.

Modern medicine is constantly developing, many people with the disease have recovered, bringing confidence to many other families. Therefore, to stop the heartbreaking incidents like the above caused by people unfortunately suffering from depression, mental illness, the most important thing is understanding, care, timely support, sharing from relatives and family of the patient.

Let's look at the heartbreaking cases at the beginning of the article so that each family and relative of the patient feels concerned and responsible for helping the patient overcome.

LINH AN(Ninh Giang)