“Twice I had dark thoughts of ‘taking the easy way out’ and lost my appetite to eat when I was 12. Being in a Malaysian Chinese family, it’s not always common or easy to talk about these things.
Finally after 7 years of battling depression, I decided I was done with it. My mum was having hot flashes, which she thought was heart problems. She was referred to a psychiatrist and that was when I decided to see him too and opened up.
I’m in a good place right now as I’ve learned to live with depression. It never really goes away but it’s as if I’m able to take off the depression glasses now, which most people would not understand.
For those of you who know anyone battling depression, the best thing you can do for them is to just be a good listener. You cannot offer a solution so please lend them a listening ear.”
Photostory by Samira Suffian. Samira went to the Storytelling Workshop given by the founder of Humans of Kuala Lumpur Mushamir Mustafa at theHumans of KL ‘Stories from Malaysia’ Photostory Exhibition and this is her first story at the workshop, congrats!
Do come visit our exhibition! Event link: Humans of KL ‘Stories from Malaysia’ Photostory Exhibition
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(This post was first published on September 10th 2018)
