How to Overcome Teenage Depression

What is Depression? Depression is a mental health problem, that causes a persistent feeling of sadness and loss of interest in activities. It affects how a teenager thinks, feels and behaves and it can cause the emotional, functional and physical problem. Depression is a treatable brain illness or health problem. It is a caused of stress that change our body and can affect out thoughts and moodThe sentence should be corrected to "It is caused by stress that changes our body and can affect our thoughts and mood."

Close Comments. Depression is an extremely low mood that last time and makes a person feel sad, irritable or emptyThe sentence should be changed to "Depression is an extremely low mood that lasts for a long time and makes a person feel sad, irritable, or empty."

Close Comments. Many people, including teens, have suffered in this way. It can be describe in many ways and it is a mental disorder that any person can suffer.

Many teenagers feel that life is not fair or that things never go their way, they feel stressed out and confused. It is not unusual for the teenager to experience the blues or feel down in the dumps. Teenagers are always unsettling time, with the emotional and social changes that accompany this stage in lifeThe paragraph talks about how teenagers often feel stressed and confused due to the emotional and social changes that come with adolescence. However, the paragraph lacks coherence and organization. It needs to be expanded to provide more information and to give examples of the emotional and social changes that teenagers experience during this time.

Close Comments. Nowadays many teenagers commit suicide because of being depressed, too much stress and pressure. When teenagers feel down there are many ways to deal with it.

Music and dancing are the common way teens do to escape from everything. If have a possibility to be at home alone, turn on the music and start dancing. They should not afraid that they do not do it very wellThe sentence should be corrected to "They should not be afraid that they do not do it very well."

Close Comments. They should understand that they dance only for their self and not for other people. It will let forget about all positive negative emotions. The second way is walking.

Teenagers can have the fresh head if they spend time walking a few hours a dayThe sentence should be revised to "Teenagers can have a fresh mindset if they spend a few hours walking every day."

Close Comments. They will sleep well and they should not about there problem. Next is meet with your friend, met with a friend there can have new emotion and spend your time with the satisfaction, there will get the new experience and get new information. Because of it will help to overcome the depression. We should not avoid people because they can help a lot.

A teenager needs to find the hobby, it will catch their attention and will forget about a problemThe paragraph lacks coherence and organization. It needs to be revised to provide more information and to give examples of hobbies that teenagers can engage in to overcome depression.

Close Comments. Will need to spend sometimes on hobby and even can find there some new friends. It’s needed to create some plans in our lives and to reach our goals. If teenagers have the plan, there will not be any time for the depression. It will increase mood and will forget about depression. You need to think a good vibes in order for you to take all the negativity you have within yourself. Be optimistic and open minded in everything that around you. Most importantly, have faith in God, talk to your family and true friends. You need to share your problems order for you to be relieved.

I realized that life is so easy but we insist on making it complicated. Once I have gain myself-realization and started on the path of self-discovering. I will learn to be able on taking the next step of beating depression. Realize my talent and skill so that I can fulfill my own dreams, understand own worth and utilize that knowledge to the fullest. It is not the thing around make our happy, it is what their inside of that truly pleases our inner self. Asking other people what them happy is pointless because only we can know what makes happy and bring joy to our lifeThe sentence should be revised to "Asking other people what makes them happy is pointless because only we can know what makes us happy and brings joy to our lives."

Close Comments. And I also believed in the saying that “When depression takes over and I cannot push through it, I have to close my door and shut them out, it is only to survive”. 

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