Depression Depression an abnormal emotional state characterized by exaggerated feelings of sadness, melancholy, dejection, worthlessness, and hopelessness that are inappropriate and out of proportion to reality. Depression is a major problem with our adolescents and the number of incidences is gro...

Depression Depression is unpredictable as to when and at what age it strikes; what if anything causes depressive illness to occur when it will go away and when if at all the illness will return that is the bad news. The good news is that depression can be treated, and if treated properly, ...

Adolescent Depression: The Under Acknowledged Disease Depression is a disease that afflicts the human psyche in such a way that the afflicted tends to act and react abnormally toward others and themselves. Therefore it comes to no surprise to discover that adolescent depression is strong...

Adolescent Depression: The Under Acknowledged Disease Psychology Depression is a disease that afflicts the human psyche in such a way that the afflicted tends to act and react abnormally toward others and themselves. Therefore it comes to no surprise to discover that adolescent de...

My life has been one struggle after another. Dealing with depression was not as easy or as fun as a ride on a slide. It was more like a sickening spin on the merry-go-round; it felt like I was holding on for dear life and spinning so fast my hands were loosing grip. My therapy sessions were a ...

Teen Suicide Suicide is a big issue for teenagers. Weather its slitting your wrists, hanging yourself, or even shooting yourself with a gun either way you're its suicide. A lot of teens are driven to suicide by problems in the home at school and even problems with themselves not being able to...

Teen Suicide Now approaching epidemic proportions, suicide is the second leading cause of death among college students and third leading cause of death for teens ages 15-24. Teen suicide has tripled since 1970. In Los Angeles County there is an estimated 300 to 400 teen suicides per year. This num...

Drugs are commonly looked upon as being bad, yet people still use many drugs. Why is this? Many people are feeding an addiction, or feel they need the drug to make it through the day. Also many people enjoy the feelings they go through while being on these drugs. (Glass, 27) Different types of d...