Why do depressed women chop off their hair?

This is something serious. Last night I called up a friend after many months regarding some professional thing, and I was shocked to know that she was under depression and she broke it off after such a long time. She had stopped using her Facebook, she was not going to her office and had locked up herself at her home since many days. She told me that she wanted to kill herself and she hated her. When I went to her place this morning, and when I saw her, I felt so sorry for not being there with her. She had shaved her beautiful long tresses. It is not that she was not looking beautiful, but what I saw was her tears were screaming for help. She needed someone to take her out of the depression.

I really understand this rough patch. Just like many other women around the world, even I have been through depression and it is okay to cut hair when you feel depressed, but not to damage your self confidence. Do that to look better than before. When you cut your hair you prove yourself that you still have some control on some thing and you forget that you are making yourself weaker by doing so.

I asked my friend to talk about what happened. In such situations if you will become weak, you will lose control over yourself and the other forces will try to dominate you. A business when left unattended, gets failure and people take advantage of it. So, it is important to control the emotional losses and try to make yourself busy in other things. I am not sure if my friend is fine after our meeting or not, but I will not give up. I will talk to her as much as she wants and I will try to make her what she was before the emotional loss.

Depression is a dangerous thing and it can ruin your life more than anything else can when you are emotionally weak. When you know there is nothing which can be at your side, take your side. Do things that can make you come out of the trauma. Give yourself a break, take a holiday, cultivate a hobby, talk to people, do things to make your mind, body and soul better. Do not ruin yourself.

Write to me, share yourself.

Gratitude,

Gypsie