Friday, 19 June 2020

I am not okay....

Hi friends,

It’s been long since I have written a blog. I felt that lock down would give me a lot of time to write blogs, but things were completely opposite. Day starts with work and ends with work. In fact, today I was forced to write this. I read an article today from Times of India where a renowned Graphologist has analysed SSR’s handwriting after his tragic end. After reading it, the only thought I had was what if this Graphologist could have had a chance to meet SSR in the early stages of his anxiety or depression.

Friends, lots have been spoken and will be debated for long, till it will cease naturally, I do not intend to go in that direction. The person who ended his life is not waiting for any justice or any ones answers, but he and many others like him who follow this path have made us think, why this happen and can it really be stopped? I know someone who is having a depressed family member. That friend of mine is standing rock solid with the patient. It is indeed not at all easy to manage in such a situation. Ask those who have a son or daughter going through stress, anxiety and depression at such a young age?

So, what can we do? They say one should listen to them. But are those in depression willing to talk it out? What we can only do is try to identify these signs early and that is the only time they can share their thoughts. In graphology, one can see the negative traits in a person’s handwriting and also suicidal tendencies to some extent can be identified. But what’s the use of finding them, when the disorder is in the clinical stage? We can help kids in their early stage of stress. I have seen that when the child crosses the age of 15, he/ she feels he/ she is strong enough to manage his/ her own life and does not need any ones help. So we have to make the wrongs right, in the kids below 15. Friends, if each one of us can stop even one kid from going in that direction, it will be life’s purpose served. Let us try and help them from an early age. Let us bring the change, by making small changes around us.

Let them not say, ‘I am not okay, I am just too good at pretending I am.’ Let them just say, “I am not okay”……          

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