Yousuf Raza – Depression as an incredible blessing in disguise

Would you like to any advice that you

would like to give to the youth, any

general advice regarding depression besides spirituality, mental health,

whatever, any advice or any message that you

have for the viewers?

See, we have this perception of depression as

something absolutely bad, horrible, negative, nothing good can

come out of it.

And understandably, we know where that comes from.

And we know that it's distressful.

It's painful.

It's it's difficult.

It's distressing.

But do understand, for a lot of people,

for a lot of people, the growth that

they have been able to achieve after experiencing

depression leads for them to conclude that depression

may have been the best thing that happened.

Right.

So depression growth potential.

People who are 50, 60, 70 years of

age, simply because the university student experienced depression,

took it seriously, looked to figure out what

was wrong with them and then actively sought

to fix things up.

People who sought professional help looked to follow

the advice that they received.

And the growth was exponential versus someone who

denied their depressive experiences altogether, took it out

on others, and just they developed some very

negative coping strategies.

Depression may be or may be a very

it can be an incredible blessing in disguise,

an incredible blessing in disguise.

Demonizing it is perhaps one of the biggest

mistakes that we've made as a society.