Usha Dabas

Anxiety & Depression - A Journey from Suffering to Thriving Usha Dabas

This is a motivational and inspiring story of a mental health warrior, a medical professional herself, and sufferer of the severe anxiety, depression, and stress, who kept fighting, beat her all odds and finally emerged victorious through her determination and resolve. The story in the book has been written in the narrator's own words to keep its purity and appeal. This can be the story of everyone living on this planet, however, as we keep facing our demons every day in diverse life conditions. Life is full of experiences of happy and sad moments. Trauma, agonies, positivity, negativity, pain, success, and failure are integral parts of life. At times, they confound our minds to the extent that minds get overwhelmed and baffled in dealing with them. This may culminate into different forms of psychological expression or mental illness such as anxiety, depression, PTSD, or panic attacks. Our mental health can destroy us. "YOUR MIND IS THE WORST ENEMY OF YOURS"-the sufferers of mental health agree to the fact due to their physical and mental struggle for survival and dealing with stigma. Through this book, the author emphasizes that it is crucial to talk about mental health. Talking about mental health provides us opportunity to seek help, find people who can relate and connect, and step toward wellbeing. It is important to understand that however big the problem may be, life is certainly bigger than that. In modern day living, many fight for their health every day in ways most people don't understand. They are not deplorable, they are warriors. Through this inspirational and heartening narrative, the author desires to reach out and help those enduring mental health issues and sufferings, and constructively benefit sufferers to make them able to take steps to regain control of their mental and physical health, and also work out to alleviate the stigma surrounding issues many of us face in daily life. The message of the book is clear that Mental illness is not the End of the World. Anyone and everyone can suffer from mental health issues. All of us are vulnerable. However, your greatest success is not in never falling, but in rising every time you fall. Be your own sunshine!