Response To Allie Brosch's Adventures In Depression

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Adventures in Depression Summary and Response Essay Depression can be a scary word in today’s society, not many people know how to react or respond to someone who is depressed. With a lot of support available within communities, depression still remains complicated for people to understand. As a result of this, people try various ways and approaches and are not successful. Allie Brosch, author of “Adventures in Depression” and “Adventures in Depression Part Two”, summarizes her struggles with depression. She is able to captivate the reader using illustrations to reflect her negative feelings toward herself and finding humor in having a mental illness. As crude as this may sound, using her own self reflection enables the reader to connect and relate to the content with deeper meaning. Summary Review As Brosch takes the reader on an emotional rollercoaster as she struggles with the understanding of depression, she …show more content…

It is an illness that can affect a person’s perception and interaction with everyday life. Within the first depression essay, “Adventures in Depression” Brosch begins to speak negatively about herself, proceeding to self loathing and feeling ashamed. As the self abuse continues in “Depression part two”, she is then left more confused with the inability to enjoy activities that used to be fun. Months went by and these thoughts turned into normality, suffering in silence, without realizing that depression can be a diagnosable, treatable condition. After acknowledging that having suicidal thoughts was not a normal emotion, she reached out for help. Brosch again found it difficult to explain her thoughts, discovering that “there’s no tactile or comfortable way to inform people that you might be suicidal”. It wasn’t until she started talking to professionals, that her lack of feelings turned into feeling again, which were not necessarily positive, but any feeling was recognition towards the right

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