Depression In Teenagers

A mental illness that takes weeks and sometimes years for the person to start feel normal again is depression. It can completely take over their life. A person who is struggling with this illness feels like everything around them is falling apart. That there is no way out of the darkness or the endless hopelessness that is surrounding someone every day. Most depressed people are teenagers, they are embarrassed to ask anyone for help. About five in ten teenagers have major episodes of depression that never get treated or helped. Most teenagers with this illness do not get the help they really need (Martin 11). The signs of depression is as follows, the person will have the lack of energy and will not want to do anything. They will feel worthless, hopeless, and have guilt about just about anything. They will have problems concentrating on school and things that they once loved to do. They will have a hard time sleeping at night, they will tend to think or attempt to harm/kill themselves in any way they can find. Anger can play a big part in depression. A person with depression will refuse to leave their room. These are some of the signs of depression in an individual (Martin 12-13). Many friends and family members think that someone can …show more content…
It is characterized by recurring, unwelcome, and disturbing thoughts, and repetitive, ritualistic behaviors that people with this disorder feel the need to perform. They have fears and anxiety that they cannot control. The brain repeats certain thoughts and replays it endlessly. The teenagers with this disorder are usually used to having an everyday routine. Teenagers with obsessive compulsive disorder do not get the help they need because they are too embarrassed to bring it up to anyone. It is the fourth most common neuropsychiatric in the United States. Men are more likely to develop this mental illness (Giddens