It's Kind Of A Funny Story Analysis

“‘Now’ I kept on, ‘after the serotonin passes a message from one brain cell to the next, it gets sucked back into the first brain cell to be used again. But the problem is sometimes your brain cells do too much sucking,’” (Ned Vizzini, page 109). The chemicals in the brain can lead to suicide and depression which needs to be worldwide awareness due to many adolescents dying by putting their lives at risk.

Some adolescents are taking their lives at risk by committing suicide due to the amount of stress, anxiety, and the lack of Serotonin messages, or any chemical, can lead to depression.“ ‘I thought…you haven’t really lived until you’ve contemplated suicide,’ I said. ‘I thought like it would be good to have a rest switch, like on a video

the main character in It’s Kind of a Funny Story, Craig, struggles with depression and thinks, by committing suicide, his life will be pain free and have a life restarted. He believes that anyone has not lived a life if that person hasn’t thought life should be over and that person haven’t felt the rage, pain, and the will to put your life at risk. No life is like a videogame; however, no one can just hit restart and start all over again with a new beginning. Suicide either kills or leaves adolescents understanding depression is real and it shouldn’t take a person’s life for one to realize it. The lead singer from Linkin Park, Chester Bennington, took his own life by hanging himself and committing suicide. Suicide awareness needs to be a top priority in adolescents it can’t be risked anymore, dying and not know what we are trying to prevent and spread awareness. Moreover, suicide is becoming a leading cause of death in adolescents. In the state of Michigan every six hours, on average, somebody commits suicide(American Suicide Prevention Foundation). As a society, today, the world has to come to an understanding that suicide prevention is something that should be worldwide recognized and accepted due to the death toll rising for suicide in

In 2016 it is said that an American dies by suicide every 12.3 minutes. It is said that the lack of neurotransmitters are the reasons for depression. Neurotransmitters are responsible for sending chemical messages and when you lack the balance of a chemical it is scientifically said that the lack of a message leads towards depression. With this being said, “The evidence is very convincing that low levels of brain serotonin and/or norepinephrine cause depression. Current medicines used by doctors to treat depression work by redistributing serotonin and/or norepinephrine effectively tricking the brain into thinking it has more neurotransmitters, but there is none.”(Dr.Kaslow). If the brain thinks this way it begins to want more of the medication or it can counteract the effect and lead to even lower unbalance of the chemicals, which can increase the suicidal thoughts. With these prescriptions there is no way in telling who it will benefit or it will not benefit on. Some adolescents are taking these drugs to help and get better, but sometimes are only getting worse. When that happens, it usually means they need a different and stronger medication, like for Craig in It’s Kind of a Funny Story he took Zoloft in order for his depression to fade away, but once he stopped taking the Zoloft his depression came back into full swing and he attempted suicide. As a result,