Advice on Low Self-Esteem & Depression | Mufti Abu Layth

so that's of that question the other question on depression from Elizabeth is that look having low self-esteem or suffering from depression has nothing to do with Iman right has nothing to do with Iman any person saying that depression is because of your lack of faith in Allah is a shade bond okay any

person who says that is the devil incarnate I'm telling you that that is that they are doing the greatest disservice to Allah and His Messenger that it is ridiculous to and ridiculous to claim that your depression that people may be going through is somehow linked to a lack of faith in God that's stupid these people have no idea of mental health they have no idea how the brain works they don't understand things like neurotransmitters they don't understand things like serotonin it's levels the uptake they don't understand this stuff

these people are they speaking about physiological matters as though it's just something to do with oh oh you don't oh you must clearly not believe in God that's stupid that's ridiculous that's as dumb as saying oh if you have a headache then you don't you can't be a Muslim it's as dumb as that statement so that is it's absurd it's nothing to do with your faith okay so please just take that into first of all I need to clear that I cannot stress that enough because

I see some of these these I don't call them but some of these so-called preachers saying things like this and it's so disappointing [Music] learn about the Eman lacking but your intellect is definitely lacking so yeah it's nothing to do with that however depression what advice would I give for depression I would say first of all speak to your local GP a local doctor see what's going on try to get a

scan try to get some kind of like some medical feedback is there a chemical imbalance is there something some people could naturally have issues with serotonin or they kind of just the kind of things going on but the hormonal aspect of their body could be at an imbalance cortisol levels and other things so it's good to get a kind of check up to see what what's going on maybe there's some kind of imbalance that can then be stabilized in addition to that I would say that depression can

be caused by many things one is an event an isolated event based depression so for example something has happened in those cases usually time will heal things like somebody saw for example somebody's died and now their death has caused somebody to go into depression these are like isolated scenarios where the depression has a clear kind of source there's an etiology to the whole thing and now in those situations

hopefully time will heal inshallah and the people some on some occasions people don't have a particular isolated cause they don't know why they depressed like nothing's actually happened they just seem to have gone into depression this can happen first of all being depressed at some level like just feeling sad for example is normal just feeling sad on some occasions so sometimes just the way you'll feel really happy sometimes there may be occasions where you just feel really sad you feel down that normal so

long as it does not become chronic or kind of sustained over a long period of time so if somebody felt sad on some evening or some day that's can be quite normal and it can even be healthy it's not something which you need to worry about the problem is if you can't shake that feeling off at all I don't mean just in that evening or those few hours I mean it's been a week and you're still sad it's been two weeks and you still said there's something definitely going on here this is not just a normal

episode of feeling down I would say in addition to medicinal assistants or medical assistants there's many things that are somebody can do I would advise that one you need to preoccupy the mind okay you need to it's going to be difficult because once a person goes into depression they lose things like their appetite they lose the desire to eat food they lose the desire to want to do things they have an apathy like they don't want to learn they don't want to watch something fun they don't want to chill out but here they have to kind of

force themselves to do these things so I would advise that you do you even if it means forcing yourself but you have to keep the mind active you have to try if you're into learning something learning read about something watch something that's something I would say it's very important to keep the mind active to it's very important to make sure you have some hobbies it's really important if not take up some hobbies there could be anything it could be learning a language learning poetry to gardening to

reading about things to whatever all that for example it could be for somebody they take up a study of something but you take up something three I would read and I can't stress this enough is you must socialize with friends you must force yourself to go visit some friends the kind of friends who are usually very jolly or cheerful or go visit them chill out hang out have a laugh because I can't stress this enough that you seriously will change your kind of mindset being

around people that are that way you can just have an uncontrollable kind of laugh and where they will so I would really advise these things somebody said a good joint will help I believe that I don't smoke myself but statistics do say that some where it's legal medical marijuana may be of some help Aloha but my but my point is that it's so important to go and socialize be with friends it really can help and other

things too I mean maybe I don't know spending some some quality time that always should help right so