Roughly 20 million people in the United States suffer from depression each year. Whether some are hiding it behind a fake smile day by day or if they are open about their depression it is well known. Depression affects 40 million people worldwide every single year. Doctors and psychologists work hard everyday to help out kids, teens, and adults to figure out how depression can be hard on the body. Depression disorder affects the brain, body, motivation, and the people around it. Sometimes it can be easy to hide but most of the time it is out in the open. Depression to some people is known as just a state of mind, those are people who have never experienced it. To the people who have suffered from depression it is known as something that
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The people standing at the edge of the water cannot even see you drowning, so they just watch as you feel like you are being consumed by air which is normally what helps people live, but in the depressed eyes, air is the enemy.” As a young girl Brooke has experienced things a lot of people in their 30’s and 40’s have not experienced. Her father skipped out at just one month old. The only thing ever given to her by her father was an old ripped Winnie the Pooh blanket. A few years later she received a phone call from her dad telling her that she was missed and that she has a half sister who is 3 years younger than her. The seven year old Brooke was excited to meet her dad and sister as they arranged to meet somewhere. A few short weeks later she found out that her dad had died. She was left with nothing but a thought of what he was like.
According to Social Psychology Blog, family and parent issues are one of the direct causes of depression. There are five overall causes of depression. Situational depression occurs when something traumatic happens in one's life. A car crash, loved one passing away, being abused, and the most common cause is combat. As we go through our life, we will experience loss. Loss of a parent, pet, or other loss of a loved one can cause depression throughout your life. We are taught growing up to just deal …show more content…
“Anxiety disorders affect women twice as frequently as they do men. And many studies show that people with depression often experience symptoms of an anxiety disorder.” It is proven that often times when a person has anxiety or another disorder, it can cause them to also have depression because they do not feel good about themselves.
I interviewed my friend Rylee, and she said that after she was prescribed to Adderall, she feels like she is not normal and often gets upset about not being able to focus. “I feel as if I have to rely on medicine and pills to be able to do what normal people can do like focus and get their work done.” Rylee stated. “ I feel like pills control my entire life and that I am one the ‘broken humans’ who was not born able to focus and get things done.” It is sad that most people feel this way due to other disorders they have.
Overall, depression disorder affects nearly everyone at some point in their life. With hard work from doctors, psychologists, and even the people around it, we can help. Depression does not have to take over the depressed, it can be addressed without pills or
The people standing at the edge of the water cannot even see you drowning, so they just watch as you feel like you are being consumed by air which is normally what helps people live, but in the depressed eyes, air is the enemy.” As a young girl Brooke has experienced things a lot of people in their 30’s and 40’s have not experienced. Her father skipped out at just one month old. The only thing ever given to her by her father was an old ripped Winnie the Pooh blanket. A few years later she received a phone call from her dad telling her that she was missed and that she has a half sister who is 3 years younger than her. The seven year old Brooke was excited to meet her dad and sister as they arranged to meet somewhere. A few short weeks later she found out that her dad had died. She was left with nothing but a thought of what he was like.
According to Social Psychology Blog, family and parent issues are one of the direct causes of depression. There are five overall causes of depression. Situational depression occurs when something traumatic happens in one's life. A car crash, loved one passing away, being abused, and the most common cause is combat. As we go through our life, we will experience loss. Loss of a parent, pet, or other loss of a loved one can cause depression throughout your life. We are taught growing up to just deal …show more content…
“Anxiety disorders affect women twice as frequently as they do men. And many studies show that people with depression often experience symptoms of an anxiety disorder.” It is proven that often times when a person has anxiety or another disorder, it can cause them to also have depression because they do not feel good about themselves.
I interviewed my friend Rylee, and she said that after she was prescribed to Adderall, she feels like she is not normal and often gets upset about not being able to focus. “I feel as if I have to rely on medicine and pills to be able to do what normal people can do like focus and get their work done.” Rylee stated. “ I feel like pills control my entire life and that I am one the ‘broken humans’ who was not born able to focus and get things done.” It is sad that most people feel this way due to other disorders they have.
Overall, depression disorder affects nearly everyone at some point in their life. With hard work from doctors, psychologists, and even the people around it, we can help. Depression does not have to take over the depressed, it can be addressed without pills or