When I walked into a class on Monday, October 26th, the day that my creative genius class selected the topic our class’s theater, I knew for some reason that the topic selected would be depression. I don’t know how I knew this or why I knew this, but something tipped me off. Dr. Balbert was the teacher that day. He brought up a few ideas about what we could do for our theater and then allowed the class to offer up ideas. The idea of depression was mentioned and was quickly placed upon the whiteboard along with the rest of the ideas. These ideas included many various examples of segments of the Trinity population who experienced oppression. The class voted pretty unanimously for depression, as horrible as that sounds. If I recall correctly
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Balbert was listing off different places where we could look for ideas on how to write about depression. One place that he specifically mentioned was that we examine our own personal experience dealing with depression in an effort to discover what ideas and themes we should discuss in our monologue. In my monologue I tried to focus on the feelings experienced by someone who is depressing themselves as result of their experiences. Balbert’s mention of personal experience brought flooding back to me my own personal experience and struggle dealing with depression. For me this was the memory of a depression that I went through my junior year of high school. As a result of a failed relationship. When these memories came flooding back to me, I knew that I was destined to write about my own personal experience with depression and how it effected me. This depression was brought upon by the story I told about in the monologue, that was turned in Friday. The monologue that I wrote is in fact a true story. I lived the monologue during my junior year of high school. The major result of my experience was that I entered a deep and spiraling depression in which I felt the emotions of helplessness and worthlessness on a daily basis. I also lost thirty pounds and socially isolated myself for almost six
Balbert was listing off different places where we could look for ideas on how to write about depression. One place that he specifically mentioned was that we examine our own personal experience dealing with depression in an effort to discover what ideas and themes we should discuss in our monologue. In my monologue I tried to focus on the feelings experienced by someone who is depressing themselves as result of their experiences. Balbert’s mention of personal experience brought flooding back to me my own personal experience and struggle dealing with depression. For me this was the memory of a depression that I went through my junior year of high school. As a result of a failed relationship. When these memories came flooding back to me, I knew that I was destined to write about my own personal experience with depression and how it effected me. This depression was brought upon by the story I told about in the monologue, that was turned in Friday. The monologue that I wrote is in fact a true story. I lived the monologue during my junior year of high school. The major result of my experience was that I entered a deep and spiraling depression in which I felt the emotions of helplessness and worthlessness on a daily basis. I also lost thirty pounds and socially isolated myself for almost six