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Personal Narrative: The Great Depression

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Seventh grade was awesome. School was still easy, and every Saturday morning I had a Bar-Mitzvah party to attend. Seventh grade was also really difficult. During fun Bar-Mitzvah parties I forced a smile; the ground was shaking from the music and the stomping of people dancing but I was stuck in my own head sitting at a table alone. Millions of Americans have depression, with a large number of cases developing during puberty, a statistic I was and still am included in. I have depression; no I am not depressed.

The diagnoses came shortly before December of my freshman year of high school. Over holiday break myself along with 8 other high school students and three teachers from my Hebrew school traveled to Israel. Not only was this my first
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