Understanding Mental Health and Depression
📌 Hallucinations can be visual, auditory (hearing whispers), or related to spatial/temporal awareness (not being in the right place or time).
🧠 An imbalance of hormones in the brain can cause a distorted perception of reality, affecting senses of time, place, shape, and sound.
⚠️ Severe mental health conditions are categorized by the degree to which a person fails to recognize fundamental realities (like time, place, or basic personal hygiene).

The Impact of Information Accessibility
💻 Increased access to information via the internet has led to more people recognizing symptoms of conditions like depression, which were previously dismissed as possession or superstition.
😵 The danger of this accessibility is self-diagnosis; believing you have a condition based on online searches can actually lead to manifesting or worsening the symptoms.
📚 For example, googling "headache causes" might lead someone to believe they have a severe circulation issue, ignoring simpler causes.

Depression in Young Adults and Men
📉 Young adults (ages 17 to 30) are highly vulnerable to mental health complaints, with self-diagnosis being a major contributing factor.
🚶‍♂️ Prevalence of severe depression is higher in adolescent males (14.5%) than females (9%), often masked by societal stigma that dictates men must always appear strong and suppress emotions.
🛑 Men often use defense mechanisms like isolation or solitary hobbies (e.g., fishing) to cope privately, as expressing vulnerability is seen as weakness, leading to dangerous internalizing of problems.

Coping Mechanisms and Professional Help
🗣️ If experiencing symptoms, the solution is consulting a professional (psychiatrist or psychologist), not relying on self-diagnosis or unconventional remedies.
🤝 When supporting a friend, be a good listener but avoid "one-upping" their problems ("adu nasib"); focus on empathy rather than immediately comparing burdens.
⚖️ Psychologists focus on talk therapy/counseling, while Psychiatrists can also prescribe medication; for major (Mayor) disturbances, both are often required.

Key Points & Insights
➡️ Self-diagnosis is dangerous; if you suspect a mental health issue, seek proper medical consultation rather than self-confirming diagnoses found online.
➡️ Societal stigma pressures men to suppress emotional struggles, leading to a higher, yet often hidden, prevalence of severe depression; encourage men to seek support.
➡️ A healthy adult balances spiritual stability, emotional stability, and physical stability (e.g., through prayer, exercise, and managing emotions).

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