The Mind Station

  Depression can make it tough to enjoy life especially when feelings of despair and hopelessness always persist.  Depression is not feeling down for an hour out of your day. It's not beautiful.  Depression is being on the brink of tears because you dropped your glass of water. It's not having the urge to clean up the mess, rather you fall on the floor and cry because you doubt the world will have color again.  Some days are good, great in fact, and you almost feel like you're better. Then something minor can turn you into a mess. People will ask 'Why are you crying? What's wrong?' And the only answer you can give is 'I don't know but it's nothing new'  Everyone will tell you that it'll get better..... and you dream of when it will be. Some days I swear I can feel the sun radiating happiness through my body and then other days, I feel nothing and everything all at once. Depression is not easy nor it is a quick fix.  Your friends and family en...

One in four adults feels lonely some or all the time. There's no single cause and there's no one solution. After all, we're all different! But the longer we feel lonely, the more we are at risk of mental health problems.    Because it's mental health awareness week, I decided to write this.     Dealing with loneliness can be difficult but there are things we can do to cope with loneliness and prevent some of the negative feelings and mental health problems that come with it. Here are some coping strategies you might find useful: 1.  Try to do some enjoyable things:  Hitting the gym, sorting your kitchen cupboards, and knitting is little things you can do. Small activities can give you energy and positive feelings. GET BUSY!!! 2. Try to do things that stimulate your mind: Taking courses, and listening to podcasts or music can be stimulating. Activities that occupy your mind can help with loneliness. 3. Find people that 'get you': It can be hard to conne...

 Hey you! Welcome on board. Here we want people to open up, face their fears, learn and unlearn. Younno lying on this bed with my earphones plugged in my ears(yeah, I'm a lover of music), memories of when I was depressed and went through mental distress keep coming up(tho I'm not done with depression, lol). And I feel like wow, so people went through the same stuff like mine, some are going through it and it's just occurring to some. Tbh mine wasn't based on relationship palava, it was my education and my parents. I know most of you know me already and we might have had an encounter but let me reintroduce myself because this blog will be about people(real-life stories and maybe relationships)and I'll like to go first. My name is Khadeejah(i prefer this spelling) tho I grew up with "Khadijah". My grandfather's name, our supposed surname is Islahudeen but where my father got Olalekan from is what I don't know, and guess what, I love it. My father tol...