Dealing depression, by practise of maintaining daily diary entries.

Depression to a large extent is still a dirty word. The most important thing about depression is that one never knows when or who it will strike. In today's world trusting people have become a rare factor in human relationship. It is so low that children don't share their problems with parents nor couples share their problems with each other. The trust deficit in relationship is so high that we don't share our issues or concerns among humans, rather we would only share our fake happiness to our invaluable of friends on social media whom we hardly know well.

Earlier the bonding among the humans was so strong that we used to share problems to humans who used understand our issues in much better way unlike today, where we keep updating our moods on artificial platforms which doesn't even find solution nor console us. The issue of self respect complexity  never intervened while sharing our problems with our loved ones earlier because of the strong bonding humans had at that time, hence the term such as depression, anxiety disorder etc. was rare and abnormal at that time.

Forget about talking to friends. The trust deficit among humans is so high these days that, even when we know we are severely under depression or facing some sadness we don’t open up ourselves to professionally trained counsellors about our real issues thereby making counselling a technique to escape from depression ineffective.

Now we can’t ask the situation or the circumstances to change, rather we need to fight the issue of depression with tools and techniques which is available at the current time. And one of the ways which I found to deal with depression is writing and maintaining a routine diary which has the power of self introspection and self consoling. During the course of the day many events and activities takes place but there is hardly any time for reflection. The practise of writing a daily diary entries will give a person an opportunity to slow down, look back and revisit key events of the day, describing not only what happened, but also recalling thoughts or feeling of that moment. After recounting the day’s events, one can also spend a few minutes about the lessons of the day, and “practicing” alternative ways to react to stress, handle relationships and recognize and appreciate life’s positive moments.

Thus writing and maintaining a diary is great tool for self introspection and self consoling technique especially for people who feels to talk to someone about their  issues but doesn’t have the guts to open up their mind to people because of the trust deficit. This habit  also helps people to fight against the addiction of drugs or alcoholism which is a result of depression and loneliness to a large extent.

 

- Francis Lazar.