Depression In The Perks Of Being A Wallflower

Are you depressed? Traumatized? Many live their lives without realizing that they suffer from depression, or anything that affects then emotionally, due to thinking that they are too good of a human being to be suffering from depression. In this novel, The Perks of Being a Wallflower, Charlie, a freshman in high school who had major events in his early life that left him with depression, which he did not realize until he was sent to the hospital toward the end of his freshman year. A symbol that is represented in this novel is emotion, how it can drag a person down to their lowest and how healing it can be to bring them happiness.
The personality and emotion drives Charlie to the best thing he has ever experienced to him and the worst in the novel. His depression from the deaths of people who he most cared about left him with a depression that went without being treated for many years and when he finally figure out what

“The thing that helped me the most, though, was the time I could have visitors.” (Chbosky 209) the visitors, including his family and friends brought happiness and courage to fight his depression and be the best kind of Charlie. After being released from the hospital, Charlie was the most forgiving person, not blaming anybody for what happened to him, because “... even if we don’t have the power to choose where we come from, we can still choose where we got from there.” (Chbosky 211) and that it was himself that brought him to where he is at and it is himself that was bring him to the better part of his life, with the moral support from his family and friends. The experience that Charlie went through brought out the best and the worst parts of him and with the help of people, he was able to become emotionally stable and gain control of himself once again, but even better than