I've read several articles on people's certain views on teen depression... but I have noticed that these people have not gone through depression before. They state that teens are just "looking for attention,".
but that is not always the case. When I was depressed, about a year and a half ago, I was not looking for attention at all. Although, I was looking for someone to care. I hid my slit up wrists, and did not tell people when I took pills and tried to commit suicide... but I did write poetry about doing it, hoping someone would read it and give me answers to my questions and somehow make life worth living. Now I'm not going to say, "I had a right to be depressed because blah, blah, blah, blah happened.".
The truth is, it wasn't just one thing that made me depressed, it was a whole bunch of things all put together at one time. It was too much to handle. I still will not say that anyone and everyone should be able to go through what I, personally went through, because everyone is different. Some people can handle more things than others, some can handle going through a divorce, loosing a best friend, living in a broken home, having fake friends, not knowing what your purpose is, realizing you have nothing to show for everything you've ever done, getting pregnant, getting left behind, ect... It doesn't really matter what exactly happens, because at the time, the depressed person doesn't know what's making them so depressed. They feel like their world is crashing and no one cares. The problem with depressed teens, is not that the teen "wants attention,". but rather that they want to know that they aren't in this life alone... and one of those problems for why teen depression isn't stopping, is because people don't know how to react to it. The fact is, is that many teens who are depressed just need to find something stable in their life. If people would just realize that and try to tell them (the depressed person) the good things in life, then teens like me wouldn't feel so alone, because we would know that someone cares enough to try. |
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