Depression is a word I hear thrown around day-in and day-out nowadays, how is it possible for a word to be so overly used, yet still hold so much stigma and discrimination for its sufferers?
I have Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD), Schizotypal Personality Disorder (StPD), Depression and Agoraphobia, so a bit of a list there. It’s a struggle knowing where one conditions begins and another ends. I don’t feel like I have a “normal” day and if I have, at any point, a “normal moment” I try and hold on to it for dear life but everything changes so quickly.
I conceived of the Resilience project for Refugee Radio because there were so many people in the refugee community suffering from Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD). Many of them had survived war, torture and/or sexual violence. Now they found themselves experiencing symptoms such as flashbacks, nightmares, anxiety and insomnia.
Okay maybe you don’t tell them straight away, I usually don’t, though I feel like they need to know about me in case I ever get in a bad way. Just so they are prepared for it - if I suddenly locked myself in my room all day, not eating or drinking, people would probably find me pretty weird if they didn’t know I had a mental illness.
Depression is a word I hear thrown around day-in and day-out nowadays, how is it possible for a word to be so overly used, yet still hold so much stigma and discrimination for its sufferers?
I conceived of the Resilience project for