Depression Case Study

Introduction There are so many people that go through depression; some of which being adolescents. Each person may not go through it for the same reasons. It can vary by age from one person to the next. Some people may go through depression because of several reasons. For example, they could have lost a loved one and do not know how to handle it, or they have had a baby and are sleep deprived, or just because of everyday life and they just cannot handle situations the way they should be handled; or they do not know how to handle them. Some people can handle more in this aspect than others. Susan is a young girl that has been diagnosed with depression because of hereditary and other trickle down circumstances in her life. Therefore, by eventually seeing a psychologist and coming to the conclusion of depression, Susan’s psychologist has helped her build a path to recovery and is helping her become “normal” again.
Background
Susan is a thirteen year old girl who lives with her mom and her younger sister. She and her sister, for the most part, get along and are pretty close. They are sisters, so there is the occasional sister battle that happens every now and then. Susan and her mother are very close. They go out to eat together often, they do homework together, and they watch TV together. Sometimes they even have

She was becoming angry, passive and began really shutting people out. She was becoming more of a lone ranger. On top of this Susan began to be made fun of by other kids in her class because the clothes that she wore were pretty much the same clothes that she wore every week. Her mother could not afford a lot of new things and she did not want to burden her mother any more by asking for things that she knew her mother could not