What impact does depression has on the growth of our country and why there is a need to find a solution to this?

Depression – is the biggest problem our society is facing. People of all ages are suffering from depression. Among these people the rate of youngsters is the highest. Around 50% of the youngsters are affected by it. The tolerance power of youngsters is so less that they are not able to tolerate any problem that comes by, and when they feel things are getting worst or not changing, they end up getting hopeless about the situation. As the number of depressed youngsters is increasing, it is becoming more serious concern for the society, because youngsters mean more energy; more energy means more vibrant ideas; more vibrant ideas mean more growth. We need to bring youngsters out of the depression otherwise we would see the decline in the growth of country, which basically will affect the economy of nation. Among so many reasons one reason is that, people have a lot of expectations from themselves and others too. If these expectations are not fulfilled then they find it difficult to be okay with it.  When they have too high expectations from themselves but unfortunately met with failure, they are not able to cope up with that. Failure in academics, competitive exams becomes the reason for losing confidence, sometimes they just don’t want to give it more tries. It has direct impact on their brain. They find it difficult to remain positive in such situations. Second reason is that now-a-days people are more engrossed in their own work. Nobody has time for anyone else. People are becoming more and more self-centred; they only think about their own selves. Sometimes they don’t even realise that other is in need of their support, they don’t bother to listen person if they don’t feel like, the person hence feels neglected. There are people who are far too sensitive, and when they feel they are neglected by their closed one or those whom they find important in their life, it doesn’t give a good feeling inside. If these situations prolonged for a longer duration, then the person may feel less important and loneliness fills the heart, and eventually they are no longer in love with the own self. Youngsters don’t have proper understanding that what matter is to be given how much importance, they just get with flow and land up into trouble. They are less aware of the way to tackle these kinds of situations. Youngsters have a lot of talent in them already, they have the potential to bring a change in society. Their talent is being wasted, and it takes a lot of time for them to overcome depression. Around 50% Indian talent is at hold. They cannot bring out the best or work to their full potential when they are not happy. We need to bring out this talent, we are in need of young energy. The question is - How can we achieve this? Should conducting counselling sessions would do the work for us? No doubt it will work, for the people who are already in a depressed state. We could counsel them and infuse a sense of hope and positivity into them. To give them the support they need, to show them the right path or options they can choose in life i.e. help them choose hope and internal happiness can be a great motive. But what if we don’t need all this? What if we could spread happiness everywhere? What if we get more sensitive towards people all around us? What if we start understanding other person’s point of view, their emotions too? What if we can be a listener to someone who just needs to be heard? Sometimes they don’t need solutions, they just need a listener. If people become compassionate about people around them, there would be less such problems in our society. Just giving a helping hand to someone, lifting them up, is a part of humanity. Only love has the power to heal…If we could just understand this, we would have more lively and happy people around us. We need to create this sense among the people and youngsters too. Only then we would be able to bring a change in society. This will undoubtedly result into more productivity, hence more development in country.