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Depression
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Hirsch said his bout with de-
iression is an uphill battle he
aces every day.
“I think to myself, ‘I got
hrough it earlier, I can get there
gain,’” Hirsch said. “It’s like stair
teps — if you come to a big one,
t’s going to scare you, but once
ou do it, it’s not so bad.”
Kym Marcontell, a 26-year-old
Sryan resident, said she has been
lealing with major depression
or over eight years. She said her
units with depression have
aused her a lot of physical and
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But I soon realized depression can strike
myone, even me.
The signs of depression are sometimes ig-
lored because people who exhibit them think
liey ’ll just go away. I was one of those people
vho thought one day I would just wake up and
eel better— but that day never came.
It does not go away, and I soon learned I
•xhibited the signs of depression. I was as-
aired many people experience bouts of de-
iression, but if they dedicate themselves to
ivercoming it, it will get better.
One of the first signs of depression, al-
nost no one realizes, is a drawn-out face.
People who are depressed show little emo-
tion in their face, look tired and rarely smile.
1 was the type of person who always
emotional pain.
“With my last bout of depres
sion, I lost 18 pounds in three
weeks and I didn’t sleep,” Marcon
tell said. “I wouldn’t sleep for two
or three or even five days, and then
I’d sleep a day and a half.”
Hirsch said depression is not
something that can be stereotyped
because everyone deals with it dif
ferently. He said he, like most peo
ple suffering from depression,
alienated himself from others and
kept his depression a secret.
“You see it as a weakness and
you don’t want others to see that
weakness,’’Hirsch said. “It’s defi
nitely not something you want to
broadcast to the tabloids.”
Stachowiak said although sui
cidal thoughts can coincide with
depression, there are many de
pressed people who have never
considered suicide. Marcontell,
for example, said she never
thought about killing herself to
escape her depression.
“I haven’t ever wanted to stop
breathing or living,” Marcontell
said. “I’ve wished I was someone
else for awhile, but I’ve never
wished for death.”
The Student Counseling Ser
vice provides both individual
and group therapy as well as
medication to students seeking
help. Stachowiak also said stu
dents who notice symptoms of
depression in a friend should let
their friend know he or she is
there for them.
“In a kind and supporting way,
let them know you’ve noticed a
change in their behavior lately,”
Stachowiak said. “Just be an ear
for them if they need it, and sug
gest to them that maybe they
should go to counseling.”
Stachowiak said 80 percent of
people treated for depression go
on to lead normal, productive
lives. Hirsch agrees.
“I think it's possible for every
one to recover from it, to some ex
tent,” Hirsch said. “You can defi
nitely get out of it. You just have to
take it day by day and be positive.”
smiled and had a certain animation in my
face. However, over the last year my friends
and family would ask me if I was sad. I never
understood what they were talking about
because I felt fine. It wasn’t until I looked in
the mirror that I realized my face had be
come expressionless.
T he second sign is severe fatigue. Like most
college students, I valued my sleep, because I
rarely got enough between classes and work.
However, last semester I would sleep later than
usual, not hear my alarm and consequentiy
miss a lot of classes. My roommates would joke
that I was “comatose,” but I could not figure
out why I was sleeping so much.
Depression is defined as having, “low spir
its, gloominess and a decrease in activity.”
This is why I was tired so much — 1 thought I
just had a sleeping disorder. It turns out I had
lost energy as well as focus and interest, an
other typical sign of depression.
One of the most obvious signs of depres
sion is a lack of focus and interest. I had al
ways been a good student in high school. I
was ambitious and was always competing
to be the best at what I was interested in.
But recently, I did not care what hap
pened to me, how bad my grades were or
how much financial debt I accrued. It wasn’t
until I almost failed out of school this last
semester and my parents cornered me that I
realized I had a problem that would not just
go away with time.
Depression is not something that will just
go away. It takes work. For those who go
through a period in their live? where they
experience symptoms of depression, talk to
your friends, family or even a counselor. De
pression does not mean you are a freak or
you are mentally ill. Instead it is one of life’s
challenges many students like me are work
ing through every day.
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