Sura 1

The Beginning of the Domino Effect

When we face a mental breakdown, most of the time, we tend to look for external sources of peace for our minds. Perhaps this is because the things that disturb our minds often come from external sources.

One of the most common examples is heartbreak.

Most people have experienced, or at least witnessed, a person going through an emotional breakdown because of love. They may have gone through a breakup, and suddenly, their entire world seems to have changed. They become sad, unhappy, distracted, and unable to think about anything other than the person they have lost or the relationship that has ended.

Some people can no longer concentrate on their work. For students, their studies begin to suffer. For people who are already dealing with other health issues, emotional distress may make those struggles even more difficult to manage.

The impact goes beyond the mind. It begins to affect other parts of life, too.

And this is where the domino effect begins.

One problem leads to another. The mind is disturbed, work suffers, relationships with other people become strained, and other responsibilities begin to fall apart. Before long, a person may develop the feeling that everything in their life is falling apart at once.

Sometimes, it all begins with the loss of one person.

Someone who was once part of your everyday life, your thoughts, your happiness, and perhaps even your plans for the future is suddenly no longer there. And because that person occupied such a significant space in your life, their absence feels like the absence of something much bigger than themselves.

You are not only grieving the person. You may also be grieving the life you imagined with them, the future you planned together, and the version of yourself that existed when they were around.

Now you want to fix everything.

But you don't know how.

And because the pain is difficult to bear, you begin looking for something, or someone, who can make it stop.