Mind is a complex place and depression can make it even more messy. The thoughts and feelings that once made us look forward to exciting things ahead can turn into a never-ending cycle of dark and negative ruminations that could make you question your existence. Things and activities that were once enjoyable could now seem like a compulsory ritual with no meaning attached to it. Loved ones who made you smile could seem selfish and self-centred while you struggle to find a way in maze of your falling mental health. Mental health experts, however, say this is what depression does to your mind as hormones go into imbalance and make you believe in things that are far from true. (Also read: Lesser-known habits of depressed people they hide from the world)Dr Samir Parikh, Director, Mental Health and Behavioural Sciences, Fortis Healthcare blames all these changes in the thoughts process to chemical balance triggered by depression that affects our mood and make us feel low and negative.
"It's like wearing dark glasses and seeing everything dark. For example, some people may start overvaluing some of the negative experiences, maximising them and minimising all the good things that are happening to them. Some people may start thinking that only worse is going to happen because they are in a negative frame of mind so they are not able to recognise positivity. Some people start feeling that I will not enjoy what I used to do. It's happening because the moods are not good. So, things that you like doing, you are not able to like doing and because of that you are not enjoying anything, you have lost interest in everything," Dr Parikh tells HT Digital in a telephonic interview. (Also read: 5 amazing things that happen to your mind when you take a break)