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- inactive, on 05/15/2008, -5/+73Teenagers get depressed? Wow, that's news.
- wild, on 05/15/2008, -2/+621 in 4 high school girls has an STD. I am surprised more young men aren't depressed.
You have better odds in Russian Roullette. - rlray216, on 05/15/2008, -6/+51The USA is great in a lot of ways, but there's plenty to be depressed about. The government is almost completely morally bankrupt, and if you care about that sort of thing, it will weigh heavily on your mind. Kids today seem to live lives of distraction rather than of action. They watch people sing and dance on tv, but most of them don't sing or dance themselves. Few can play an instrument, and many can't play a sport. And peer pressure issues are a major concern these days for sure.
- jonthefisherman, on 05/15/2008, -0/+39it's just their Thetans, come to the org. and learn the tech and find happiness!
- ike6116, on 05/15/2008, -3/+33CRAWLING IN MY SKIN
- soulpunisher, on 05/15/2008, -3/+29I knew I was seeing more Emos around.
- inactive, on 05/15/2008, -1/+26More startling news: last year,
6 million teens reported being annoyed at their parents,
4 million teens reported at least one bout of major disenchantment,
and OVER 2 BILLION teens farted.
Details at 11. - orlyfactor, on 05/15/2008, -1/+20It's all relative. One man's problems are another man's dreams. And your problems are the biggest problems in the world simply because they're yours. I am not saying it's right, it's just how humans are.
- goodinohio, on 05/15/2008, -5/+26Just STFU on the subject until you learn the difference between "clinical depression" and "bummed out".
- dtele, on 05/15/2008, -10/+33I really think it is the culture that is causing this... we get much the same problem in Australia, and the quick fix is to prescribe drugs. How much of this 'depression' is caused by social peer pressure problems?
Kids today don't know how good they have it... if they were born in Iraq or another troubled country, I could understand these figures, but in the US? - m0nte, on 05/15/2008, -2/+20Unhappy girls mean more sex for the smarter.
- TheWorm, on 05/15/2008, -5/+22Depressed teens I know are depressed because schools are creating so many unnecessary hoops to jump through for graduation and classes are getting more and more competitive and at the fast and impersonal level teachers move at it's easy to get behind and risk losing that 4.0 you need to get into a decent school these days. They make school a hundred times more stressful than an actual job.
- rolandde, on 05/15/2008, -2/+18The vast majority of anti-depressants do not work. A resent study in Britain where information was forced (through the law) from biotech companies about their development of anti-depressants shows that they cherry picked their data and that these drugs do temporarily increase the mood level, but have absolutely no effect on people with depression.
http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/health-and ... - Darkhacker, on 05/15/2008, -0/+19I completely agree. I suffered from severe depression. It got so bad that I dropped out of school and even began losing a large amount of weight because I spent all my time crying in bed and barely eating once every other day. All these people can do is make jokes about them being emo or needing to "suck it up" not realizing what real clinical depression is like. If I had not been medicated, I could have very well ended up like Cho or the Columbine teens. It's no surprise at all that these events occurred because while they were having serious mental health issues, everyone around them was like "yeah right" and practically daring them to do it.
People are two-faced. They act like big-pharma is evil for creating antidepressants (which saved my life) and that depressed people need to "suck it up" and then they act all surprised when someone goes off the deep end. The article even stated the third leading cause of death among teens is suicide and they're telling them to "suck it up"? When the third leading cause is suicide, you shouldn't just assume they are talking *****. They need real help and anyone who thinks otherwise should be ashamed of themselves.
It should be treated like any other condition. It would be like saying, "Cancer? suck it up. AIDS? Suck it up. Gunshot to the chest? Suck it up." I wish the people who criticize depression could know how I felt; could know how horrible the pain really was. Sometimes, the emotional pain gets so bad, that your stomach and torso region begins to have real, physical pain. - Typhoon2009, on 05/15/2008, -2/+18I think they're talking about people who are clinically diagnosed with depression, not someone sad because his girlfriend of 4 months broke up with him.
- o0joshua0o, on 05/15/2008, -8/+26Clinical depression is a serious problem, and not the result of being "whiny" or "spoiled" or "emo". You people need to show some **** respect.
- rune420, on 05/15/2008, -1/+16Even so, I personally think it's healthy to go through some bad times at some point in your life. It's not supposed to be a constant dance on a rainbow all the time.
A period of depression or anxiety in the teenage years could even be seen as the brain trying to condition itself better for adult life, and I think pills undermine that. I know that's kind of how it was for me at least. - jd72277, on 05/15/2008, -0/+15did you have a major spelling/capitalization revelation between your first and second verse?
- vexingmodstwo, on 05/15/2008, -4/+18Kids don't have it good today? I'm not that old when I was in my teens I didn't have a quarter of the stuff kids take for granted today. I'll argue that kids today are depressed BECAUSE they have it so good. They're brought up with a sense of entitlement because they have everything they could possibly need and have the LUXURY to get depressed because they don't have to work for a god damned thing anymore.
- lucidguru, on 05/15/2008, -14/+31I call *****... First of all what the hell is wrong with drugs? Anti-depressants have been scientifically shown to increase neurogenesis in the dentate gyrus. This is not a "quick fix," it is a physiologically sound solution.
Second kids DON'T have it good today... Compared to their parents they have far fewer individual liberties and freedom, less wealth, and a pretty dismal future. Teenagers realize that they're inheriting all the problems that the baby-boomers have created. The depression does indeed stem from the culture, but it is not misplaced. - 8abrontoburger, on 05/15/2008, -2/+13Is this an Onion article? I thought all teens were depressed and unhappy with their lot....
- a6n28f, on 05/15/2008, -0/+10Looks like somebody's been drinking the Kool Aid. Since when are most American children raised in stable homes? Since when are Americans eating well? Since when is American public education not among the worst of the industrialized world?
Further, depression isn't being "sad" any more than having two broken legs is being "unmotivated" to get up and do stuff. It is a physiological impairment that can be treated. - RogueMountie, on 05/15/2008, -1/+12Many people here are reacting with "you don't know how good you have it!". But it has been shown that depression isn't really related to socio-economic status. Rates of depression are about the same in really poor and really rich places. Depression hinges on things like social rejection more than on problems like hunger or war. Having close relationships with friends and family can help prevent depression even in the worst circumstances, while the perception of being alone can make the most fortunate person completely depressed.
- Velvolver, on 05/15/2008, -17/+28Cry me a ***** river, go outside and plant some trees - get an actual result and benefit for spending your time. Myspace is fruitless emo kid.
- Charlotte_Web, on 05/15/2008, -1/+10When I was a kid, we had Vietnam, the Iranian Hostage Crisis, Libya, the Cold War, and nuclear armageddon to worry about, among others. I don't think that today's teens have anything more to worry about than I did.
Depression can be caused by a variety of factors, and without research into the cause, this is all just half-assed speculation. Researchers would need to see how diets have changed, how exercise habits have changed, what impact the breakdown of the traditional family structure has caused, etc. Saying that George W. Bush is the cause of rampant depression among teenagers today is about the stupidest thing I've ever heard. - SpickSlayer, on 05/15/2008, -1/+12Pluss your like 33 on the eastren time zone, it's 9:30... get a job and stop posting on digg looser
- orlyfactor, on 05/15/2008, -2/+11I know, let me alert the papers...
- displaced1, on 05/15/2008, -1/+10Abstinence is the best protection, and leading cause of penile chaffing.
- Stevethegreat, on 05/15/2008, -0/+8It is natural for one who's imprisoned to an uncreative job where you only have to please the master (teacher/parent) and with no way to show your worth other than taking good grades and more lately (where good grades are gone out of fashion) to please your peers by doing superficial things that could -at most- be called symbolic with no bearing in the real world. The high school culture IS a prison culture, there is a reason why jocks, nerds, emos and so many other groups are so pronounced that's a ghetto/prison culture, people form alliances so that feel safer NOT so that become better than yesterday.
I was also depressed when in high school because I had to do things that did not matter to me and as a result I wasn't doing them so well, to conform to my teacher's wishes AND to my peers' likes. When high-school ended -however- it was all a different ballgame, with a way to start my own business and work and/or study the way I liked, I felt free again for the fist time after 10 years. I do think that high-schools are broken beyond relief and there must be great changes to them reverting them from dry knowledge and a conformist school (the more you conform the more you're rewarded), to a foundation more rounded around the problems of kids that are becoming adults with knowledge in the side (in the form of classes of chosen material and/or lectures). What schools should be teaching is modes of thinking and in a single generation you will show this generation of depression to start coming down because by then people would know WHY they are depressed rather than be so in autopilot by choosing a life in wrong terms (in the hype of a moment, conforming to the wishes of those around you, believing the "American dream" etc)... - Harrison88, on 05/15/2008, -2/+11It's because you don't have European women.
- doktorrocket, on 05/15/2008, -0/+8This one?
http://www.motifake.com/motivational_posters/bf62b ... - mycatsasha, on 05/15/2008, -1/+8And how many of the depressive episodes were situational? (getting teased, Grandma died, divorce, must pass college entrance exam, dog gets hit by car...)
- Kazragor, on 05/15/2008, -0/+8It's because it's cause by a chemical imbalance in the brain. You can't just simply stop caring about being sad, you'll still feel all of the symptoms.
- sgtpppr, on 05/15/2008, -2/+10I would think this is completely untrue. Most American public schools have gotten easy to the point of auto-passing. The US is FAR behind most of the civilized world in education and it gets worse each year. Depression in the US has a LOT more to do with basing your life around ideal lives in music, movie, and tv than in school being too hard.
I hate to quote Fight Club, but this quote is so completely powerful and relevant here:
"Man, I see in fight club the strongest and smartest men who've ever lived. I see all this potential, and I see squandering. God damn it, an entire generation pumping gas, waiting tables; slaves with white collars. Advertising has us chasing cars and clothes, working jobs we hate so we can buy ***** we don't need. We're the middle children of history, man. No purpose or place. We have no Great War. No Great Depression. Our Great War's a spiritual war... our Great Depression is our lives. We've all been raised on television to believe that one day we'd all be millionaires, and movie gods, and rock stars. But we won't. And we're slowly learning that fact. And we're very, very pissed off. " - RogueMountie, on 05/15/2008, -0/+8So you are saying that depression is the result of believing that something is owed to you? I don't think that is true in most cases of depression.
- gstep, on 05/15/2008, -3/+12They're ALL emos. They're depressed that their middle class suburban life is so hard.
- Snuff99, on 05/15/2008, -1/+10...an emo epidemic?
- CynicSight, on 05/15/2008, -0/+7I completely concur with this sentiment. Some kids become so obsessed with reality T.V. in general, that they actually start to live vicariously through it. And a lot of these kids, who don't participate in sports, have never been encouraged by a parent to do so. I'm not saying "blame the parents" but it's a factor along with many others, specifically our culture and the media And as for the government, yea, it's quite disgusting and upsetting but that's all the more reason to try and DO something about it: Go protest, write to your congressman, DO SOMETHING! If kids really want to make a change in their mood, they need to be proactive about it and know that the only one that can help them is them self
- Baumtrack, on 05/15/2008, -1/+9Ha! Wait until they have to get jobs!
- yikiad, on 05/15/2008, -0/+6aids is a loaded gun, dude
- puter, on 05/15/2008, -0/+6I think your priorities are messed up.
Every single thing you named is a sign of material wealth. These kids have great gadgets, access to a (relatively) good education, plenty of food, and a complete lack of parental and family involvement
The single biggest problem with deliquency in school is parents that JUST DON'T CARE. They have kids that are failing but they won't take the time from their busy day to help them with homework after school. They have kids that are skipping school and their parents refuse to make them go. My girlfriend is a teacher, she has a student who is in joint custody and his father lives 20 minutes from the school; he does not go to school about 50% of the time because his father _refuses_ to take him...because he's too busy. The student cannot read, his mother has her Masters but refuses to help by teaching him at home or making him go to school.
Yes, teenagers in todays society have significantly more material wealth, but they also have fewer family values, parents that don't care, and a society that in no way values family values...it expects schools to take care of everything that used to be the families responsibility. There are high rates of depression in todays society because of a lack of family support. People say our education system is bad, our education system is fine...it's the parents that are bad.
You want proof? Do some research, I watched a documentary on an island society where the teenage years are agreed by everyone who lived in the society to be the happiest days of their lives. The society had strong family bindings and support, and that is what they cited as being one of the main reasons.
Family is supposed to be what a teenager relies on when they are trying to learn about life, what are they supposed to do when their parents expect school administrations to replace them? - jd72277, on 05/15/2008, -2/+8this just in: 2 million teens become un-depressed shortly after depressing teen years.
- iChuckles, on 05/15/2008, -3/+11I am a middle age well educated guy. I have been unemployed for more than a year (health issue but now having a hard time finding a good job). I rent a house, I have a daughter and wife. I have a TV, a PS/2, a Wii, 3 computers, 2 cars, a full refridgerator, electricity, and access to medical care. I am, by far, in the worst part of my life so far. However, I would easily bet that there are more than 4 billion people who would kill to trade places with me.
Oh, and I am not depressed about it. You know why? BECAUSE THE WORLD OWES ME NOTHING! THE U.S. OWES ME NOTHING! LIFE OWES ME NOTHING! It can be a hard lesson to learn but it is one of the most important ones. - soulonfire928, on 05/15/2008, -2/+8Going out and doing something is worthwhile, I agree, but be more of a prick about it. Its not irritating enough that we have trouble doing day to day things...we need people being bitches about it too.
- timesheetsrule, on 05/15/2008, -0/+6these wounds, they will not heal
- displaced1, on 05/15/2008, -0/+6Oh my god yes, yes, yes, yes. I can't wait to go back to Europe this summer just to see the women again. Its the exact opposite of the U.S. More beauties, less fatties.
- serif69, on 05/15/2008, -0/+6And the award for lamest, most unoriginal comeback goes to...
- ogloom, on 05/15/2008, -0/+6Hes just trying to help. Why the hate digg =[
- tylermenezes, on 05/15/2008, -2/+8They're called Emos.
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