Have you ever felt like you don’t know what’s going on anymore? Have you felt you don’t care about anything anymore? You’ve lost motivation to do anything, even what you love doing. Your mind is set on too many things that you are confused about your feelings and you can’t explain how you feel either. You are overpowered by the feeling of emptiness and feeling that barely anyone is there for you anymore. It seems like there is nothing to look forward to anymore. Have you ever felt like you were swimming in a hopeless, bottomless void filled with negativity, where the only way out is to give up? If yes, then you need therapy because this is depression.
But a depressed person is not always that boy who wears long-sleeved shirts and is a backbencher, or that girl who dresses in black and is shy. A depressed person can also be the class clown or the most extrovert girl in your class. It’s difficult to find, like a needle in a haystack.
In 2011 the World Health Organization reported that India was the most depressed nation in the world. But there is a veil of silence that prevents us from openly discussing these issues, for fear of being judged, pitied or looked down upon as though we were mentally retarded.
A common cause for concern of teenage suicide is the pressure from parents to do well in the national board examinations, which will after all determine our future. Being a teenager isn’t easy. We are at a phase in life where we outgrow childhood-a time of joy
Laughter and play to being grown up adults with responsibilities.
This is a time when we try to find who we are and where we belong. We have to deal with peer pressure, bullies, pressure by parents and teachers to perform well in school, fear of being judged by relatives and friends and to top it off, depression.
One major reason according to me about why teenagers get depressed is because we are expected to reach a certain stereotypical standard placed before us by our elders that very often they themselves couldn’t reach.
Students are pressurized to undertake lucrative professions 'so as to' gain a name in society.
Students find it difficult to choose between their parents and themselves; their parent's pride and their future. They find it difficult to stand up and speak out because guilt keeps them glued to their seats. Guilty because their parents have raised them with so much trouble, and the thought of disappointing them is selfish, vile and cruel.
Depression among youth has increased from 2% to 12% in the last five years. Ours is a society that gives more focus on numbers than finding the real talent of a person. Education should be made more practical and less theoretical to build students interest in studies. Students should be encouraged to pursue their hobbies and interests as careers. They need a reason to wake up each morning, and that reason should not only be school.
One of the reasons why students get depressed is because of the family environment and past issues. A cordial and happy relationship at home is necessary, giving room to discuss issues that trouble oneself. Speaking to someone who is trustworthy, or even counselors and psychiatrists can be very helpful.
Everyone wants to become as rich as Bill Gates, the richest man in the world, but what we are not told is that our net worth is far more precious than anything earthly possible. We have the potential that can take us to unimaginable heights. Potential can sometimes be dangerous. Plutonium has the potential to power a city or to be a nuclear bomb. It all depends on how we are nurtured as we are the future.
I would like to end with one of my favorite quotes. When a leaf falls from a tree, it is at the mercy of the wind. Be ‘the wind’ to drive people and not ‘the leaf’ to be driven by others.
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