Teen Depression Among adolescents, one in eight may suffer from depression. A mere 30% receive any sort of intervention or treatment, and the other 70% simply struggle through the pain of mental illness. At Liberty High School we have 950 students. If this statistic applies, it means we have roughly 118 students dealing with depression. As of right now, there are no programs within the school to offer help to these students. Even though this is a nationwide problem, there are many kids at our school struggling with depression with no access to help. By establishing a small support group here at school, a big impact can be made. The issue at hand is, at Liberty High School, there are many students walking around, suffering from depression.
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All four have different characteristics and are brought on by different happenings in life. The four different types are psychotic, postpartum, seasonal affective disorder, and persistent depressive disorder. Also, people who serve in the military or armed forces are at a higher risk for post traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). Most people seem to think that depression is just a state of sadness, but it is a lot more than that. Depression is a long period of time in which it can make people feel lost, irritable, lose interest in activities, cannot get out of bed, feeling “out of it” and so many more symptoms. People will naturally have days of feeling sad and upset but depression is having those feelings for an elongated period of time. Depression can be caused by many things including inherited genes, an imbalance of hormones, a traumatic life event, or an event that negatively affects someone. Back in the time of the Greeks and Romans, depression was known as “melancholia.” The word melancholy, today, is derived from this. Melancholia was treated with activities such as massages, music, and baths. Patients were also put on special diets and were given drinks of poppy extract and donkey milk, to help with symptoms of melancholia (depression). Melancholia was also seen as a sign of being possessed by the devil and in some cultures, exorcist like treatments were given. The first time a medication was used to treat depression was in 1952 and the first doctor to use a type of talking therapy as treatment was Sigmund Freud in 1917. Throughout time, there was a constant battle of whether depression was a mental or physical ailment4. As a result, many doctors tried any form of treatment they could think of, no matter how cruel they were. Finally, in 1952 it was figured that depression was indeed a mental
All four have different characteristics and are brought on by different happenings in life. The four different types are psychotic, postpartum, seasonal affective disorder, and persistent depressive disorder. Also, people who serve in the military or armed forces are at a higher risk for post traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). Most people seem to think that depression is just a state of sadness, but it is a lot more than that. Depression is a long period of time in which it can make people feel lost, irritable, lose interest in activities, cannot get out of bed, feeling “out of it” and so many more symptoms. People will naturally have days of feeling sad and upset but depression is having those feelings for an elongated period of time. Depression can be caused by many things including inherited genes, an imbalance of hormones, a traumatic life event, or an event that negatively affects someone. Back in the time of the Greeks and Romans, depression was known as “melancholia.” The word melancholy, today, is derived from this. Melancholia was treated with activities such as massages, music, and baths. Patients were also put on special diets and were given drinks of poppy extract and donkey milk, to help with symptoms of melancholia (depression). Melancholia was also seen as a sign of being possessed by the devil and in some cultures, exorcist like treatments were given. The first time a medication was used to treat depression was in 1952 and the first doctor to use a type of talking therapy as treatment was Sigmund Freud in 1917. Throughout time, there was a constant battle of whether depression was a mental or physical ailment4. As a result, many doctors tried any form of treatment they could think of, no matter how cruel they were. Finally, in 1952 it was figured that depression was indeed a mental