Last night, I was on WhatsApp just whiling away time going through people's WhatsApp status when I saw a status from a very good lady friend of mine talking about depression. She had uploaded at least three different status talking about how depressed she was, that I felt I needed to text her to know if she was okay.
When I texted and she said she was okay, I felt she just didn't want to bother me with her problems, so I called her on the phone and we spoke for a while with her telling me that she wasn't feeling okay for a while, but she was good now.
While I was on the phone with her, I found myself totally relating with all she was going through because I myself had gone through the same thing not too long ago. And although I wouldn't say that I was depressed (I honestly don't think it is that, and hope it's not), I like to think that it was just a temporary moodswing because the feeling only did last temporarily.
But what's so alarming these days is the rate by which the youths find themselves feeling this way, or even worse, feeling depressed, and what could possibly be the reason for it?
The reason why I say so is because during the period where I felt this way, I had opened up to my friend's about how I was feeling and almost all of them had confirmed feeling that way at one stage of their life. I actually have a friend who recently had to travel to go be with his sister for a little while because he didn't like how sad he was getting and felt maybe a change of environment would help change his mood.
So my question is, is this a rite of passage that kinda happens to people when they get to a certain age, or is this generation just sad?