The Rise of Depression in Teenage Girls
Depression is one of the most common health problems in the United States today. Adolescent suicide is now responsible for more deaths in youths aged fifteen to nineteen than cardiovascular disease or cancer. Despite this increased suicide rate, depression in this age group is greatly underdiagnosed and leads to serious difficulties in school, work and personal adjustment which may often continue into adulthood It affects about 17.8million people each year, almost half of these being women. Girls are more likely to become depressed twice as much as men, and much of that is due to the society girls live in today. Today's culture is based on capitilism, sexism and lookism (Pipher, 18). Also most girls are brought up to respond differently to situations then men, and are not shown how to express their anger. There also never used to be R rated movies or designer clothes, or sex or graphic violence in the media. Being shapely and healthy looking was beautiful. There was no "Playboy" or XXX movies, drugs were not in every neighborhood. Teenagers would rebel through clothes, hair, and music. Now more than ever teenage girls are in danger and our world is to blame. In order to even understand why depression is taking over t
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Approximate Word count = 1418
Approximate Pages = 6 (250 words per page double spaced)
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