Your Prescription is not far away!

Credit: Chikodili Ochuba 

This day, you wake up so excited like you won a trophy. You're all smiles and feel the world revolves around you. You look breathtaking and greet everyone around you.

The next day, you wake up feeling so miserable, so sad that you see no reason to get out of bed to face the world, you feel so down that you sit by a corner sulking all day long like you've lost a relative, like your world is falling apart. Nothing interests you; all you want to do is stay away from people and bemoan your "poor" self.

After some time you're all over the place again singing and dancing, taking photographs and laughing... Then again you get all moody and shut out from people...
You keep shuttling between feeling good and feeling bad and just like a pendulum bob, your mood swings in a to and fro fashion without your control.

You feel like holding on to the good moment and never let it slip by but still it's not in your power, you don't get excited at your "high" moments anymore because you don't trust the durability as you'll soon find yourself feeling horrible and wishing you were not even born.

Sometimes at those ugly moments, you try to wear a smile in the presence of people just to cover up your misery, other times you come out plain wearing the "I'm not in the mood just let me be huh!" Expression.
Your bed becomes your best friend, tears your companion and darkness your favourite theme. You can't just wait for night to come so you could be alone. You go to bed at 7 pm but actually sleep by 3 am. Fearful thoughts stroll in and out of your mind, you cry but don't know why, you don't want people to find out yet, you're angry at their insensitivity to your problems. Your mind tells you how stupid, ugly, too tall/too short, poor, ineloquent, etcetera you are. You get so down and want to talk to someone but guess what? You don't even know where to start from because you don't even know what the matter is and you'll appear stupid to be worried over nothing, you just bottle up and die daily!... You're depressed! All you see are better people everywhere; finer, slimmer, chubbier, fresher, richer, smarter, more favoured... just something better than you.

Hey! Before you kill yourself come for your medication please. Your prescription has been sent to the Pharmacy, come check in for your "drugs"! Turn to Jesus, you need Rest! Pray even when you don't feel like.
A daily dose of God's word helps you come out of the pit. Keep a Scripture in your heart and speak it consciously to yourself. Refuse to be emotionally unstable and grow daily in God's word. Trust Him for stability. Really, this is the surest way to come out of depression...

And... just before you resort to antidepressants... Hehehehehe, here are some terrible side effects: weight gain (you don't want that), lack of sleep, fatigue, blurred vision, etcetera.
It's well.

"Come to Me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest". Jesus Christ (Matthew 11:28).