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Section 1: What I Know, Assume, or Imagine The topic I decided to research was depression. The reason I have decided to research this is because I have recently learned that many people, including me, happen to suffer from this awful mental disease. My doctor is currently treating four out of my mom's six children for depression and the last two are suspected to have it too. Also my biological grandfather had committed suicide after battling depression for many years; so i would like to learn more about this disease that plagues my family.
Now I am not totally deficient of information on this subject I do know a few things. I have learned the essentially depression is a chemical imbalance in your brain. I also know that depression usually starts to appear in teenagers but sadly is something that will never leave you, you just have to learn how to live with it. Now the last of the few things I do know of it is that depression can lead to greater and more mental and physical health problems in life.
With researching something you can't know everything and you are supposed to learn more about the topic. One of the things I would like to learn about depression is what are some things that cause depression. Also there has to be a way to learn how to handle this problem and I want to learn what some coping mechanisms are out there to help you deal with your depression. Another thing I would like to learn is the ratio to how many …show more content…

Depression is a dangerous disease that takes over many. Depression is harmful to not only the person who is suffering from it but also for the people who it surrounds. Depression kills around 44 thousands people a year. 300 million people of all ages suffer from depression. We need to find a way to help lessen these numbers. Depression is not something to take lightly and in learning all this I now know the severity of this

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