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“For as far back as I can remember, I’ve felt depressed but until I was sixteen I didn’t know it had a name. I thought it was just life.” Those were the words of Erin, a woman who was officially diagnosed with major depression as a teen. Like many teens who live with this serious illness, she attempted to kill herself more than once. (Erin) In America alone one in 10 students in high school have attempted to commit suicide. Also, almost one in six people, in America between the ages 12 and 17 have at least seriously considered killing themselves. (“Statistics about Youth Suicide.") But, why is this the case? Why would people, especially young ones decide that death is the only and final option for them? According to healthychildren.org in …show more content…
You know, crying and stuff. Does that, like, mean I have depression?’ In a short answer, no. Depression is way more complicated than that. There is an enormous difference between sadness and depression. For one thing, sadness is an average emotion you feel on a day-to-day basis. People can feel sad when an ice cream cone falls on the pavement or when no one can show up to a party you worked really hard on. Like every emotion, people feel it for a bit, then it ends, and they go on with their lives. For depression, however, people have the emotion of sadness constantly. (What 's the Difference between Sadness and Depression?) It’s not just crying all the time and sitting around eating a tub of Ben and Jerry’s. It is so much more. Depressed people tend to have excessive fatigue, feelings of worthlessness, loss of interest in activities or hobbies they once loved, apathy, overeating or undereating. There are so many signs of somebody being depressed, those aren’t even all of them. (Signs of Clinical Depression…) A sad thing about that is, not many people realize that they are depressed. They think they are just sad and they can just snap out of it, or they are just sick or just tired. Not many people know what depression looks like when it happens to them, so they think they can fix whatever is going on with …show more content…
There’s Sylvia Path, Demi Lovato, Owen Wilson, the list goes on. In the end, I decided to choose Nina Simone because of how tragic, yet power her story was to me. From the documentary What Happened, Miss Simone? Nina Simone her entire life had suffered hard ships from the moment she was born. At a young age she would seclude herself from the other children and play piano in hopes of going to Julliard to study classical music. Ridiculed by her race and lack of money to pay for the tuition, she left. When she started her career in jazz and blues, she was at the height of her life. She was married, had a daughter, performing in large venues and everything seemed perfect. The only problem was that she was physically abused by her husband. Years of this lead to her becoming the physical and mental abuser to her daughter, Lisa. Tired of being a mother and entertainer, she picked up her belongings, dropped her daughter off at a friend house, and moved to
“For as far back as I can remember, I’ve felt depressed but until I was sixteen I didn’t know it had a name. I thought it was just life.” Those were the words of Erin, a woman who was officially diagnosed with major depression as a teen. Like many teens who live with this serious illness, she attempted to kill herself more than once. (Erin) In America alone one in 10 students in high school have attempted to commit suicide. Also, almost one in six people, in America between the ages 12 and 17 have at least seriously considered killing themselves. (“Statistics about Youth Suicide.") But, why is this the case? Why would people, especially young ones decide that death is the only and final option for them? According to healthychildren.org in …show more content…
You know, crying and stuff. Does that, like, mean I have depression?’ In a short answer, no. Depression is way more complicated than that. There is an enormous difference between sadness and depression. For one thing, sadness is an average emotion you feel on a day-to-day basis. People can feel sad when an ice cream cone falls on the pavement or when no one can show up to a party you worked really hard on. Like every emotion, people feel it for a bit, then it ends, and they go on with their lives. For depression, however, people have the emotion of sadness constantly. (What 's the Difference between Sadness and Depression?) It’s not just crying all the time and sitting around eating a tub of Ben and Jerry’s. It is so much more. Depressed people tend to have excessive fatigue, feelings of worthlessness, loss of interest in activities or hobbies they once loved, apathy, overeating or undereating. There are so many signs of somebody being depressed, those aren’t even all of them. (Signs of Clinical Depression…) A sad thing about that is, not many people realize that they are depressed. They think they are just sad and they can just snap out of it, or they are just sick or just tired. Not many people know what depression looks like when it happens to them, so they think they can fix whatever is going on with …show more content…
There’s Sylvia Path, Demi Lovato, Owen Wilson, the list goes on. In the end, I decided to choose Nina Simone because of how tragic, yet power her story was to me. From the documentary What Happened, Miss Simone? Nina Simone her entire life had suffered hard ships from the moment she was born. At a young age she would seclude herself from the other children and play piano in hopes of going to Julliard to study classical music. Ridiculed by her race and lack of money to pay for the tuition, she left. When she started her career in jazz and blues, she was at the height of her life. She was married, had a daughter, performing in large venues and everything seemed perfect. The only problem was that she was physically abused by her husband. Years of this lead to her becoming the physical and mental abuser to her daughter, Lisa. Tired of being a mother and entertainer, she picked up her belongings, dropped her daughter off at a friend house, and moved to