Depression is real: Don’t take it lightly!

Times have been hard, and many people are carrying heavy loads, and end up feeling like there are no options except to take one’s life. Over the past months, hardly a week goes by without reports of someone committing suicide. The Monitor has covered many suicide articles and so have other newspapers.

Many of these alleged deaths by suicide do not have any suicide notes. Perhaps this trend shows that many people in our country are struggling emotionally and the cause could be many issues including but not limited to financial difficulties, relations with family members or just issues of mental health for example undiagnosed depression and other mental health illnesses.