According to “An Evolved View Of Depression” by Jonathan Rottenberg, “13 Million” American adults are struggling with depression” as of right this moment, and that is just counting American adults. (Rottenberg 1). Many people do not see the extremities of depression, or just how many people it affects from all over the world. With that being said, depression is a very serious issue and everybody should have a clear understanding about the illness itself and what causes this life altering disease. From an outside perspective, it is clear to see that depression can be caused from traumatic life events, but that is not the only cause of depression. Although many people believe depression is only a psychological problem, being caused from events
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Perhaps the most known cause for depression among all ages is stress and anxiety. In Midgely’s study where he asked children what they believed caused there , he discusses the results and states that the three main causes he found were “depression as a result of rejection, victimization, and stress” (Midlgey 29). Stress is infamously known to cause depression, even among children. For children much of the stress that is put on them comes from school. Many kids from Midgleys study talked about how school causes them to be stress, which became too much to bear for a child and resulted in depression. One child in Midgley’s study stated “I think some pressure from school and stress from school and just from my sleeping problems have been really bad the past few weeks, it is just, then all of its combined, and it just made it worse” (Midgley 29). Then Midgley’s explains a different child’s remark about his depression and stress, “Hakan (15) spoke about how the stress of exams got too much and there was a sense of self-blame for allowing this to get on top of him” (Midgley 31). Obviously children are stressed enough to say that stress is the cause of their depression. Any child or teenager would state that school is tough and has many challenges to face every day, but now school is not just tough, it is causing a road to depression. Midgley states “the highest incidence of depression in young people coincides with one of the periods of the greatest school pressure in most developed countries” (Midgley 34). Maybe it is a coincidence, but it there is enough evidence to clearly see that school, the stress kids are acquiring from school, and depression go hand in hand and are linked together. Although a lot of depression causing stress comes from school, that is not the only way people are attaining stress. Harvard Health Publications wrote an article called “What
Perhaps the most known cause for depression among all ages is stress and anxiety. In Midgely’s study where he asked children what they believed caused there , he discusses the results and states that the three main causes he found were “depression as a result of rejection, victimization, and stress” (Midlgey 29). Stress is infamously known to cause depression, even among children. For children much of the stress that is put on them comes from school. Many kids from Midgleys study talked about how school causes them to be stress, which became too much to bear for a child and resulted in depression. One child in Midgley’s study stated “I think some pressure from school and stress from school and just from my sleeping problems have been really bad the past few weeks, it is just, then all of its combined, and it just made it worse” (Midgley 29). Then Midgley’s explains a different child’s remark about his depression and stress, “Hakan (15) spoke about how the stress of exams got too much and there was a sense of self-blame for allowing this to get on top of him” (Midgley 31). Obviously children are stressed enough to say that stress is the cause of their depression. Any child or teenager would state that school is tough and has many challenges to face every day, but now school is not just tough, it is causing a road to depression. Midgley states “the highest incidence of depression in young people coincides with one of the periods of the greatest school pressure in most developed countries” (Midgley 34). Maybe it is a coincidence, but it there is enough evidence to clearly see that school, the stress kids are acquiring from school, and depression go hand in hand and are linked together. Although a lot of depression causing stress comes from school, that is not the only way people are attaining stress. Harvard Health Publications wrote an article called “What