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Did you know that fifty percent of all patients experience a depressive episode between the ages of 20 and 50. The average age of onset is about 40, although many people experience their first episode in their late teens or early adulthood (15-30), or even younger.
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Introduction
We are 7 th graders working on the Nicenet project from TIS and the team members are: Ariel, Gero, Alix, and Hanna. We chose this topic because we thought it is important to know about depression and start concerning about it seriously since it nowadays has become a serious problem world-widely. Many teens in any country are often having a hard time by some factors that cause depression such as school grades, especially 10th to 12th graders, family problems, arguing with peers or siblings, appearances, lack of self-confidence, losses of close people, and so forth. Therefore, we are here to help you in finding ways to manage your despair, and make your days brighter and happier.
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Survey Questions
1. What do you do to deal with depression?
talk to someone
drugs/alcohol l
hurt yourself
ignore your problems
not applicable
2. What do you usually worry about?
school/grades
arguing with friend/family members
appearance
other
3. Who helps you when you are depressed?
friends
teachers
parents/Siblings
psychologist
not applicable
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Most teens that are depressed trust their friends to help them. However, some also choose to go to their parents, and some get help from psychologists.
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This is a result from our survey at school from grade 7 to 12. As you can see, most teens are stressed out about school grades and arguments with surroundings. Survey results suggest that the most serious thing that affects teens is their homework and exams. The best way to deal with this dilemma is to first, divide your work into time periods, think what is the most necessary to be done during each time period. Use your time wisely, and make short pauses in between.
It turns out that most teens talk to someone to deal with their depression. Quite a few use drugs and alcohol which isn't a very good choice. Ignoring your problem is also not good. If you are depressed it is better to talk to someone or do something healthy to deal with it. |
Conclusion
In conclusion, we need to make useful choices even when the worst situation and think what is best for us. Also in our opinion, it is better for a depressed person not to use drugs and alcohol or hurt yourself often because it may only make it worse. Thus, we offer an idea that one can communicate with reliable adults or peers that may help the problem get eliminated. Therefore, we suggest not sit around in self pity and take some actions and try to solve the matter which was tormenting you. We wish we gave some useful information and that you will finally manage to be a healthy person.
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