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Black Rainbow: How Words Healed Me, My Journey Through Depression by Rachel Kelly

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4.0

Today, every disease can be measured by various tests and highly advanced machines. But, what about mental illnesses or imbalance? The answer of 'yes' is yet to discover. The diagnosis is also made when a mental health professional thoroughly evaluates the problem; considering his own professional wisdom.

This book was a unique road to entrench me from the start to the end, opened my brain to show ignorance, and step-by-step enlightenment. This book is a personal journey of the author's, dealing with depression and other kinds of it; broadly accosted as psychiatric illness.

Most people see mental illness as a whole when it is any disease which is confined to your mind, and not the whole body. But, when we coin the term psychiatric, it covers every part of the body. For our common understanding, we use the term mental quite often.

Whoever deals with anxiety, depression, panic disorder, or schizophrenia discovers the disturbance in his body that impacts his every aspect of life, either personal or professional area. The reasons to each of them are always poles apart, and anyone who suffers from mental illness, doesn't have to claim it as a personal problem, but it is more of a societal problem. A problem, others are responsible for it too.

I am surely not highlighting who forge it to gain attention. My target is the real survivals of it. People, who throughout their lives discover the meaning of depression and other mental illnesses by their series of experiences.

Every person is living a story of survival and perseverance, and the causes of their survival are the different reasons; because many remain silent about it, many speak but are left unnoticed, and many leave the mark of suicide to their name. And, very few get genuine help.

The events we face never disturb us or intrigue, but the meaning we come up with. The authors' journey to get over depression, and still fighting against it, is way beyond I can write to make others understand. It is how you feel when you face. It is how you fight with it when you don't want to. It is how you stick to live, and not throw it off forever.
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