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Depression

I have been struggling with depression for 9 years as far as I know. I don’t know when and how it struck me. I guess it's just little things in life that somehow affect us and leave their shadow on us in the form of depression.  Life with depression is like having a dark cloud on you everytime. They are the clouds that can rain even on a sunny day. For half of the period in depression I kept telling myself that I was just sad over nothing, that my brain is just overthinking everything and I started distracting myself by scrolling social media and binge watching Netflix. It was after a few years I got sick and was admitted in hospital. My body couldn’t keep in food and I started throwing up whatever I ate.  I stopped having a bath and just stayed in bed in my bedroom. I stopped talking to my parents and avoided talking to any friends and started isolating myself. Amidst all this I still didn’t know what was going on. My parents frankly thought I was just being lazy and making excuses to avoid work. I stopped going to the office and started avoiding their phone calls.  When I was in the hospital, my family doctor used to visit me every night asking me how I was doing. He was informed by the night care nurses that I don't sleep at night. One day he called in his cabin and asked me if I knew what was wrong with me, was there anything that was bothering me. I said I don't know, I just don't feel like doing anything and am tired all the time. That when he told me I had depression, I must have been 21 of age that time. This was also informed to my parents, no one still had any kind of discussion with me about this. Instead I was taken to shopping to lift up my mood, it did lift my mood but just for that moment. Depression is so less known to indian parents, I was able to go into therapy and start the treatment after 9 years of struggling with it. And my parents still don’t get it. For them it's just lethargy or me over exaggerating things to prove myself right! I wonder when this state of ignorance for mental health will be changed in India.