In the movie cyberbully directed by Charles Biname, the main character suffers from major depressive disorder. Depression is defined by the state of feeling sad, hopeless, worthless and withdrawing from interpersonal contact. Taylor Hillridge was seen as a normal teenage girl until she was given a laptop on her seventeenth birthday. When first given the laptop she joins a social media site known as “Clicker” with the help of her friends Samantha and Cheyenne. Soon after making the site someone hacks into her computer and puts a vulgar status up, when seen by other students she begins to get made fun of and bullied both in school and online. Things only begin to get worse after a fake profile starts putting statuses up about her calling her derogatory names and saying she has STD's. Soon the whole school has seen these post and she begins to be the focus of negative attention and bullying.
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As she begins to seek into this deep depression no one feels bad for her, instead, they say she is “crazy” and soon after not even her own friends want to be seen with her. Finally, Taylor had enough and decided to try and commit suicide by overdosing on pills. Before doing so she makes a video post online stating “I don't know why you all hate me so much, but maybe I do. 'cause I kinda hate me too." Soon after this, she is then put on anti-depressant medicine until she is finally able to return to
As she begins to seek into this deep depression no one feels bad for her, instead, they say she is “crazy” and soon after not even her own friends want to be seen with her. Finally, Taylor had enough and decided to try and commit suicide by overdosing on pills. Before doing so she makes a video post online stating “I don't know why you all hate me so much, but maybe I do. 'cause I kinda hate me too." Soon after this, she is then put on anti-depressant medicine until she is finally able to return to