Holden Caulfield is a sixteen year old who lives somewhere on the east coast of the USA. Holden is a normal teen, in the book Catcher In The Rye by J.D. Salinger, a normal teen who suffers from depression. Depression is a state of being sad. Holden has teen depression, and teen depression is different from that regular sadness that we feel. Teen depression isn’t just something that will go away if it is ignored, or can be beat by sheer will power, it is a serious issue. Some symptoms that come along with teen depression, you will feel sad obviously, you’ll feel angry at little things, you’ll feel that there is really nothing worth living for, you’ll use alcohol and drugs, you may even skip school, and fail out of many of your classes. These
