Losing Our Minds Summary

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Emotion is one of the most complicated things in the world. Sometimes it related to the material world, but other times it’s just a mental thing. So it’s not surprising to see those suicide rates in developed countries are very high, developing countries’ people have a happy life according to researched. However, all these things are about minds.
In the Article Losing Our Minds, the author talks about young people choose to end their life because of social stress. The article links this fact to the “shame”. People would put their values on each other, and if someone cannot reach it, that would be a shame. A young person would be influenced the most because he/she grow up in this society; they are more likely to be suicidal. In this article, the author begins with a perfect girl’s …show more content…

A young girl, in her best ages, chooses to end her life. It makes the topic very seriously and makes readers think why that would happen. Then he uses numbers and dates to show that young person's suicide has been already a big problem. The he points out that the rate keeps growing because there is something wrong with young people’s self-worth. Because they are confused about what’s the real happiness. Then the topic involved society change, because the society become more complicated, people need to bear more stress from each other, and for those young people who grow up in this kind of situation, the stress would be even more acute. Then he introduces to shame. And that’s the factor causes young people depressed. They have seen so many standards, and when they realized that they cannot have them, the feeling of shame would appear. Young people should not be told what happiness is, and they should find their own happiness by themselves. That’s the thing author want to tell us. Personally, I totally agree with this article. As young adults, there are too many stresses been put on our shoulders, and everyone wants to tell us what is

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