Depression is...
It's feeling of one being tied to railroad tracks, stuck and distressed. The person desperately wanting help, but does not know what he/she can do. Depression affects many people tied to their own "railroad tracks." These people want something or someone to help get them off the tracks before the train comes. Being tied to railroad tracks, or depression, does not have to be caused by drug/alcohol abuse and does not always denote suicidal temptations, but it is the feeling of hopelessness and confusion. People today think depression is only caused by drug or alcohol abuse, and results in suicide. Any normal person cannot be depressed, just somewhat unhappy to these people. This belief is wrong. In many cases of depression involving drugs or alcohol, the person who is suffering was depressed before he/she started his/her substance abuse. An example of this is shown in the movie, Girl, Interrupted. A young woman was sent to a mental hospital by her parents for swallowing a bottle's worth or aspirin washed down by alcohol. Doctors diagnosed her as a "borderline," who was basically someone who is depressed. As the movie develops, the reasoning for her depression was that she wanted to be a wri
Another example that proves drugs and alcohol abuse does not always cause depression is in the movie, Forrest Gump. Forrest had a lifelong friend, Jenny, whom he always had a crush on. When Jenny was a child, Forrest discovered one day that her dad abused Jenny and her sisters when he went over to her house. Years later, Jenny used drugs and alcohol with her boyfriend. She sunk into a deep depression, which had been going on for years, but just got worse by her abusing drugs and alcohol. Jenny almost committed suicide by jumping off of the side of her and her boyfriend's apartment, but looked down and decided not to. Jenny did not commit suicide, but decided to better her life by becoming a nurse and marrying Forrest. Jenny's depression was not caused by her substance abuse, but by the physical abuse her father inflicted on her. An example that shows depression does not denote suicide is shown in the book, Speak, by Laurie Halse Anderson. A young girl went into high school as lonely and reserved. No one talked to her because she called the cops at a senior party over the previous summer. Her friends stopped talking to her because they brought her to the "grown-up" senior party and she ruined it for them.
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