Sunday, May 02, 2010
Depression
No time to blog one mega emo "Last paper in NUS" thingy. Honestly, it hasn't really sunk in. I think it will really sink it only when I start working full-time.
Anyway, just a quick post. I'm not sure if people know about it from the news, but Desmond shared with me about his friend from dentistry same batch committing suicide due to depression around 10 days ago.
She surely suffered from things e.g. academic and financial stress during her 4 years in NUS. I'm not sure of the reasons so I wouldn't speculate. The thing is that seemingly she appears normal, knows how to joke around, and yet she was suffering from depression.
This brought to my attention that anyone could be suffering from this psychatric illness, if left unnoticed, will lead to dire consequences such as suicide. Seriously it made me worried about some of my friends who seems permanently emo about certain things, yet unable to summon the willpower or employ the right methods to solve them.
This seems ridiculous, but if one does not watch out for his/her mental health, with our high-stress, high-expectation society, somehow somewhere, something with go wrong with someone.
One death is one death too many, so please take care of yourselves. If there are any problems and it's within your power, go solve it. Don't fall deeper. If it's out of your control, seek help. If you don't look out for the little symptoms, they will accumulate to something big.
Someone died already, and this is really no joke.
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