 Ladies and gentlemen, brothers and sisters, As-salamu alaykum wa rahmatullahi wa barakatuh. Hashtag LNT is back after the three-day break that we just had. Hope everyone is doing insha'Allah very well. Welcome to episode 45, your favorite show, and it's 10.30 Karbalat time, so, you know, hashtag LNT is on air. Tonight's episode actually will help us with a very common mental disorder that a lot of people are affected by it throughout the world. What it is and what does it do? We'll get to talk about it, but after we check out what's trending. When you don't feel like doing anything, even you just sitting around or laying down, playing on your phone, even that looks boring. You feel like there's no energy in your body and you just feel miserable. Your friends ask you, hey, what's going on? What's wrong with you? And you just look at them, stare at them, not knowing what they're saying. Do yourself, don't even know what's going on. This horrible feeling of depression starts to hurt you. I mean, even the feeling is, even this feeling is happening to many people across the world right now, especially in Karbalat, and we'll tell you why they're on toward the end of tonight's episode. But tonight, we want to look at this mental disorder called depression, and that's why we're asking the question tonight. How do you overcome depression? And that's your question for tonight. How do you overcome depression? The number to call in that is plus nine six four seven seven four zero six seven eighteen thirty six. To let us know what you think about tonight's question. Once again, the question is, how do you overcome depression? That's your question for tonight. You can participate via phone call, text message, and voice message all via WhatsApp through the number we just showed at the bottom. Let's take a quick break. Come back to you guys. Talk more. Once again, we do welcome everyone joining us tonight. Now once again, we do remind everyone of tonight's question. How do you overcome depression? How do you overcome depression? The number to actually join the live show is at the bottom of the screen below the question, how do you overcome depression? Call us at plus nine six four seven seven four zero six seven eighteen thirty six. Let us know what you think about tonight's question. Now as many may know through research, and if you ask a specialist, depression is one of the most common mental disorders in the world right now, affecting more than three hundred million people around the world. Now imagine, and keep in mind, this is not something, it's different from the usual mood changes that you get out of your everyday life, especially when long term hit, when severe or moderate depression hits you, then you'll start feeling there's no energy in your body. You're performing poor in your work, your job with the family at school and your studies, and at worst, and God forbid, this can actually sometimes lead to suicide, where the suicide rate right now is almost eight hundred thousand people per year die because of suicide. And the age range is from fifteen to twenty nine years old. So imagine from the age of fifteen, teenagehood, until you reach adulthood, this is the most dangerous period where people get hit with depressions and we'll get to talk about it later on. Although there are various methods, effective treatment for depression, however, fewer than half of those affected with depression actually get the treatment. Not everyone can afford it, even though depression is a mental illness that will affect more than ten percent of the population at some point in our lives, everyone right now has felt or has been through a form of depression and we'll get to talk about that, why and how is it different between the man and the woman. The main causes of depression are yet to be proclaimed, are yet to be pinpointed by psychologists and by doctors. Physical and psychological factors appear to be the main cause, which obviously is the main cause of depression. Now there are several biological factors, belief to contribute to the level of depression that you get and some of them, if not the main ones, are the psychological changes to the brain. When the brain goes into states of change, then it's known as some part of the depressed brain show less activity than the fully functional part of the brain. You see that it's reducing the activity, doesn't want to get involved into anything and then you have the neurotransmitters, which is the nervous system disruption in the serotonin or the dopamine, which are thought to be the direct cause of depression and you have the hormones and then even the change of hormones can sometimes actually lead to depression. Now on to the environmental causes of depression, there's the biological and then there's the environmental. One of them which is important to keep in mind, when someone loses a dear one, when they start remembering those days that they had together and the memories that they keep of that individual that they lost, that mode right there changes right away and that person becomes depressed and yes if you love someone very much, yes you do actually become depressed and that is one of the signs of grief, but however long term may affect who you are, may affect your future life to some, the loss of someone means the loss of everything, which is another cause of depression and environmental cause of depression, loss of jobs, it may be related to the death of someone, but sometimes when someone loses their job, they automatically go into depression, what am I going to feed my family, what am I going to put on the plate, how am I going to survive, how is my family going to survive, so you start going into a state of depression and that might not also have an effect on you, but on your family as well, high stress situations, this is actually one of the main causes of depression, when someone is in a situation where there is high stress on him, work, family, anything that increases the stress on a person that might trigger off the depression mode and then he might go in and trust me when I say you don't need to stress yourself out to the point where you're depressed, but let's take a very quick break and come back very short. Once again we do welcome everyone joining us tonight, now we do remind everyone to call in and let us know what you think about tonight's question, tonight's question is right there at the bottom, how do you overcome depression? The number to call in is plus nine six four seven seven four zero six seven eighteen thirty six and let us know what you think about tonight's question, you can call us via WhatsApp, you can send us a message or a voicemail at that same number all free via WhatsApp. Now as we mentioned there were some environmental causes of depression, we talked about the death of someone, God forbid, we talked about the loss of the job and high stress situations also increased the level of depression. Now depression varies, it's different from from men to women, men really get depressed over the loss of job, maybe they lost money, maybe you know a business didn't go well for them so they go into depression while women at the other hand they go through depression because of maybe a because of their social relationship, we don't want to say relationships but there's also a relationship, it can be relationships with with your close ones but it's based on women based on how she interacts in her social and her social life, however there are other causes of depression depending on gender. Now pregnancy up to fifteen percent of women experience after delivery depression and psychologists have proven that the situation that a pregnant woman goes through through her pregnancy and after pregnancy it does have a huge effect on her personality and on her mental stability. The other one is the monopause and that's the changes in hormones which are thought to be the cause of depression especially in women, the loss of testosterone levels. Now this for men you know who have fewer testosterone levels in the future they can also develop a state of depression, they can also get into depression, however a lot of people say when does depression start? Well if we were to go back further when to adolescents years even at a very young age have been recorded to start feeling depression at a very young age five or six depending on you know the situation of the family and the history of the family they came from. This has a lot especially with the wars going on right now, children who are living in you know undeveloped countries, third world countries, children are now waking up to bombs and waking up to air strikes, hearing the death of someone very close. This triggers off a lot of depression moods and you know the child that grows up in that atmosphere shouldn't grow up in that atmosphere. I actually feel sorry for such an individual you know at a very young age because honestly it's a serious problem that calls for prompts and treatment appropriate treatment by anyone around them. Now let's talk about some symptoms at you know the teenage years, let's talk about some symptoms that can be developed in this one, poor performance in school. This is one of the causes or one of the symptoms of depression with a draw from friends and activities, sadness and homelessness and hopelessness. When you see a child who's sad and doesn't really play along with the that's why there's guidance counselors in every school and that's very it's a very wonderful idea because if that child isn't performing perfectly in his class someone needs to go and talk to him instead of leaving him and you know what he'll figure out his problems. Some schools, some schools actually neglect the students and some pay attention very closely, a lot of actually schools pay attention to students and they have to because that student that comes to school comes to class, he's mentally unprepared to come to class and take the studying in. There needs to be someone you know a prep talk, talk to him on the side and so on and so forth, the lack of enthusiasm, energy or motivation. Another symptom, anger and rage. A lot of children now in school you find them you know being angry, being getting into fights, not knowing that this is a mooching that they're going through so instead of bettering themselves they go into a deeper level of anger which leads to depression because no one wants to be on them anymore. Another one which is very common in our youth today is substance abuse. As soon as you know even teenagers right now drugs are available everywhere now especially if you're living in the West. You can call up your best friend to be like you have a dealer and he'll set you up with someone that can get you drugs. So imagine when a teen is going through depression then you'll when you're going through depression especially teens you'll see them resorting to things that really shouldn't be the main resort when they're in that situation and you know the final symptom of depression that's the highest when you have the highest level of depression or the most severe level of depression. This is when you get suicide in the middle and where we see a lot I almost I mentioned a few moments ago 800,000 commit suicide every year aged from 15 to 29 so imagine now how do you deal with depression this is very important this is what we need to focus on tonight how do you deal with depression number one look at your friends if you feel like your friends aren't the best friends that you have they're not motivating you enough then try to find new friends because the peers that you keep around you have a huge impact on your personality have a huge impact on who you are and especially on how you think of others number or number two dissipated sports if your job is depressing you then find another job if your boss is depressing you then try you know try to find a different job school activities if you're still in school try to you know the marathons that the runs that go on the funds that go on try to join them another one dealing with depression other point is join organizations that have programs for the youth that have programs for the young join the basketball team join the soccer team or if you're in UK join the football team join anything that you can try to be as as much as you keep you keep away from thinking of depression then the level of depression decreases last but not least if you're in a severe form of depression or if you're very young and you don't know what's going on with your mood then try to get the help of an adult of someone who is who's experienced you know go to therapy try to find out what you can do and it's not bad to ask someone for help I know you're at a young age and you think that you can be independent that's great but at the same time there are things that you need to keep in mind that if you don't go get checked up if you don't go the psychologist go to your mom and dad she'd be like something is wrong with me take me to the doctor there's absolutely nothing wrong with that it's it's better that you get treated at a very young age then regret it when you're 25 30 and this is one if depression isn't treated in that age range then it's very dangerous on a person's life now if the depression is serious and if left untreated and can you know throughout life as I mentioned it can worsen some of the most common and effective ways to actually consider to treat serious depressions in adolescence are number one psychotherapy cognitive behavioral therapy the CBT interpersonal therapy and medication these these four points these four methods have been proven by psychologists to be very effective especially if you attack depression at a very young age that way you know it doesn't develop into a second or third stage but before we continue let's take a very quick break and come back to you guys in a few moments once again we do welcome everyone joining us tonight now before the break we talked about a few points a few methods we talked about some depression we talked about why depression happens and now we talked about effective treatments to depression now in these days a lot of people right now are feeling depressed a lot of people right now are getting their pack their bags ready to go back to wherever they came from especially when you're in Karbala the days you know we're used to the Mawakibs rocking the street of Karbala you know the the lamentation and the atmosphere of Arba'in Muharram we used to feel Karbala in our memory is still fresh although it was a few days ago but all of these services are gone now and the people of Karbala when these days are done you feel they feel depressed because there's no one to serve and it's empty Karbala is nearly empty now because everyone is either going back or are making their way to Najaf to visit the shrine of Ma'ali on the martyrdom of Prophet Muhammad not just the people of Karbala even those leaving don't want to work and so on and so forth but this period that the Zuhwar are going through right now and the people of Karbala are going through it's very depressing it's like the the the night on the 11th of Muharram the 10th the eve of the 11th of Muharram where the lovers of Muhammad are in Karbala and yet they they've been through what happened on a day of they've listened to the story they've listened to the tell their Majalis everyone is in that grief mode you do feel a depression because this depression is is within our blood on these nights the al-bayta alaym islam are making their way back to Medina everyone is leaving Karbala the same way that Zaynab is leaving Karbala she bid her farewell to her brother around Hussain she bid her farewell to her brother Abul-Fadal Abbas and now she's leaving just like the Zuhwar so imagine how lonely and how depression depressing Karbala was and right now as well if you haven't felt that feeling because you haven't been in Karbala then I advise everyone to actually come to Karbala and see how beautiful Karbala is and this stage of depression that the believers get it doesn't last very long a few days maybe a week until things get back to normal but that week right there everyone feels how great Karbala is when everyone is gathered under the banner of Mahsena alayhi salam and this is what we need to continue to do every year try for those who haven't been to Karbala try to make some time off from now try to plan that next Arba'in you be here to try and feel an experience with your friends and with your family of what's going on in Karbala during Arba'in thank you very much for joining us tonight everyone do stay tuned for the upcoming episodes wassalaam alaykum warahmatullahi wabarakatuh