See, I know what it feels like to be at the short end of a stick and falling down a deep dark hole of your own making inside your own head. I know what it feels like to feel completely engulfed in darkness in a pit of your own making with no end in sight and no ladder to help you climb out. The worst part is this pit has mud at the bottom so it cushions your fall but the harder you struggle to get out, the more mud you get on yourself. 

I've written about mental health issues before, but I strongly believe that we need to write more and talk more about it than ever before for us to make it even viable. It is ridiculous how underreported and undervalued mental health is in India.  

I cannot help you with how one gets out of this pit of despair, mostly because it is a journey one must take alone or one will perish. The conditions of our life, no matter how rich or poor you are, lead us to a state of mind that leave us depressed for years and we don't even know it because we do not take mental health issues seriously at all. We simply aren't taught to do so.

This leads to unhappy lives, unhappy relationships, unhappy marriages, so much sadness and destruction in the world because we simply do not want to acknowledge that the social injustices in the world combined with our enigmatic mind can cause a cocktail of despair that we will drown in. 

So I've got only one thing to say, please do not ignore your mental health issues, if you are feeling depressed, please seek help. This is a path only you can walk, the one of recovery, but that does not mean you should not seek help to walk that path. 

Chin up, eyes forward. Always forward. I believe in you.