Rough Draft On Depression

Social Issue Rough draft: Depression Depression is a major social issue founded here in our world around us. Depression mostly shows up in adolescence, young adults and children more commonly than older adults. Ages 4-11 has 16% rate, ages 12-16 years has a 22% rate and 18-24 has the highest percentage within the age groups and the older the more the percentage rate goes down. Depression matters because honestly it can cost any person who is diagnosed with it their life. It can affect a young person more specifically more than an older person / individual, it can corrupt their self-esteem, confidence, anything they have going for them it can be over in a blink of an eye. I feel like people

We are basically writing “I DON’T CARE,” our foreheads. This is exactly why we should care and the matter of depression should be important to us. Some may ask what Depression is. “Depression is a serious and persuasive mood disorder. It causes feelings of sadness, helplessness and worthlessness. Depression can be mild to moderate with symptoms of little appetite, difficulty sleeping and fatigue. Or it can be more severe” I happen not to agree with what depression is because I don’t think you can put a label on depression ultimately, either you’re depressed or not. I’ve still heard of people being mildly depressed and still killing themselves, practicing suicide on themselves because of their depression and their feelings of helplessness and worthlessness. Telling someone their feelings are less “severe” is like telling a child they can’t be sad for not eating one night because cause kids in other parts of the world may never eat and are malnutrition’s. It’s not ethical, it’s not okay! Making

I feel like were evolving as people but then in the 1920s I feel like mental disorders , mood disorders such as depression were looked over and place in a box with just “sad” on the box not “help me, talk to me, guide me.” I feel like depression has always been a big, humongous, major social issue but people never really want to hear it because they me feel like it “not real.” You wouldn’t believe how many people I’ve heard say after someone committed or attempted suicide say “oh it couldn’t have been that bad.” You can get through it”, or “they could’ve gotten through it.” I’ve also heard “it’s their fault.” People always fail to remember this is a disorder, one that a lot of individuals can’t escape and some has the nerve to say “it couldn’t have been that bad.” “Depression feels like standing underneath a floor of glass screaming and