Examples Of Depression In The Perks Of Being A Wallflower

And I don’t know what it is.” (137) throughout the story, getting more and more concentrated towards the end. Charlie engages in spirals of thought, often leading in him to abandon some letters, “I have to stop doing this, I am getting to sad.” (168) and his negative character development begins to be the driving plotline of this story.

On page four while he was having his dream, he rescued Joan from the river. After he woke up, he realized the dream was a message telling him to become friends with Joan. On page seven it states, “...what he had taken for cruelty had been love, that far from hating her everybody had loved her from the beginning…” This proves that Charlie could have showed his true opinions in the first place. These parts of the story are when Charlie realizes that he should have shown his own opinions in the first place, instead of trying to become

The character of Charlie (being the protagonist) is who the readers are directly linked too, as we are taken on a journey with him through his actions, feeling, ideas and perspectives. His journey also includes his maturation/ coming of age as he does not escape from his issues and problems however he faces them head on. “I have no idea where we’re going. The further we move, the keener my apprehension grows. Still, there is something emboldening about being awake when the rest of the world is sleeping. Like I know something they don’t.” The passage has shifted from the description of late-night Corrigan to the thoughts/feeling of Charlie. He has been called to a mysterious place by a peculiar figure called Jasper Jones. As they travel further and further away from Corrigan the more Charlie’s worry and doubt comes to him about where they are travelling, what they might be doing and why did Japer choose him over everyone else? The readers are unaware of why Charlie is following Jasper blindly and so is Charlie. This is a stage in the narrative where Charlie’s progression as a character starts. The mood is created here from the events that are happening and from the readers attachment to the protagonist. The thoughts of the characters are reflected as the feeling from the readers. In some ways we already understand what might happen based on different reading from

This entire book highlights both the high and low points in Charlie’s life, and how he changed and has not changed all from his constant value of friendship to his many realizations, based on the one experimental surgery that gave him insight on what life would be like if he was “normal”.

To escape the daily struggles and to cope with how his life is going, Charlie begins smoking outside of his friend group. His sister catches him smoking and is amazed because of how innocent he seemed. This ignorance on her behalf just shows how much Charlie is changing for the worse. After numerous times of smoking, he starts going to parties and getting high. Most readers would expect him to react different to these situations but he welcomes them and makes small notes about other people at the parties. At one of his last parties, he’s on LSD and this just brought his whole emotional well-being to the ground. Even when he’s not under the influence of drugs, he’s still disconnected from what’s going on around him. By the end of the book, Charlie is stealing liquor from his parents and drinking it excessively to escape the realities of the

After falling out with his friends because of his mistake with Mary Elizabeth, Charlie became even more depressed than he was before Sam and Patrick. He turned to smoking as a way to grieve at the loss of his friends and the loss of his previous life. Charlie becomes ever out of it. When his sister needs him to drive her to the abortion clinic, he feels important and depended on and as he reported this was the first he felt needed. This repercussion with his sister helped him

but he never wanted to give up, he wanted to get smart. When Charlie got smart he was at a different point of view in life, no one understood him, he was so intelligent not even his doctors knew what he was talking about. Before charlie was smart he didn't understand anyone then he got so intelligent know one understood him. His whole life either he couldn't understand them or they couldn't understand him. They traded places with understanding each other, it came in a full circle because in the beginning charlie didn't understand anyone and now at the end it's right back to where he was before.

Charlie is seen to feel hopeless and depressed, evident in the scene where he calls his sister for help over the phone. It is at that point when he is thought to have attempted suicide

In this quote he states that he can “feel the darkness closing in” and he can not seem to shake off the idea of killing himself. This shows that he is in a super depressing place and he wants it to end. He says that he can physically feel the bad taking over his body. Charlie would not have been experiencing these terrible feelings if he had not done the surgery. If Charlie had known how much pain this surgery would have given him and all for nothing, then he would not have done it.

Then he goes into a depression because there is absolutely nothing he can do himself to help him regain his knowledge. The doctors didn’t do anything to help him. The only person that helped him was the woman that was hired to take care of him while he was going through his stages of amnesia. The doctors didn’t help Charlie when he was going through his decrease of intelligence even though it was their

Charlie is almost like a starving animal, so desperate to learn right off the bat. These boring textbooks are fun to him, a need really as he viewed the knowledge inside to be valuable and a necessity. Lastly towards the end, as Charlie reverted back to his original mental state, instead of writing past wrongs, he continued to torture himself "[putting] down [his] thoughts and ideas in [the] progress reports" (255). Charlie described the journal entries as "one of his few solitary pleasures" which really goes to show little he pleasures he had in life. As a child, the concept of having knowledge was drilled into Charlie that it would make him happy, and his mother

“Depression is a mood disorder which is characterized by the intense feeling of sadness, which usually lasts about a week or so”, and can affect social behaviors or the persons own well being. “Some of the symptoms of depression involve feeling very helpless, having a lost of interest in activities, appetite or weight changes, Changes in the person sleep pattern, psychomotor agitation, the loss of energy, followed by seth loathing, and lack of concentration”. Charlie's character has lost everything in his life after losing his wife and kids in the september11th plain crash, usually after a traumatic event or experience occurs in someones life they go through the” five stages of morning”, but it just happens to be that Charlie is still stuck in the first stage, which is denial and isolation, and still in that phase even after a year has past. Charlie had chosen to be in his own sort of world and just forget everything about his past. Charlie had came to a point where he really could not function anymore, in his everyday live, such as his job as a dentist or even talking with friends.

This allows the reader a full insight into Charlie’s thoughts, while also being unable to distinguish the truth from his emotions. Chbosky's semi-reliable narrator is illustrated through a series of letters from Charlie, the main character, to his "friend", the reader.

In the movie Charlie has many predicaments involving his mental health,

Later in the movie, Charlie spend time in a psychiatric hospital from the previous summer because of his friend Michael committed suicide. This paper will examine Charlie symptoms of Post-traumatic stress disorder, social phobia, and major depression which might have routed from his PTSD. These factors cause him to him have a breakdown and flashbacks that he can’t control off. He wants to be understood by society and want to know why he is feeling sad