Social Media And Mental Depression

“When you look at why this is happening and what some of the factors may be, we only need to look at today's world and the amount of pressures teenagers face: Bullying, issues of belonging, academic pressures . . . these factors can lead to enormous stress,” said by Gary Blau. (Albernaz) Mental depression is an illness that many people face, and it is increasing in the country because of the hardships many people face. Social media is an aspect of life that can either harm or help a person with depression. School causes stress in people to the point where they form anxiety and depression. Social media, school, and bullying are a big part of what is causing mental depression.

Social media can either help or help depression depending on how

“This drive for success is eroding children's health and undermining their potential. Modern education is actually making them sick.” (Abeles) Students around the world deal with a period in school when people feel they are not doing the potentially best that they can. This causes them to stress out about a class which could cause a domino effect and your other classes could slip. “Nearly one in three teenagers told the American Psychological Association that stress drove them to sadness or depression--and their single biggest source of stress was school.” (Abeles) Students want to do well in school so when they graduate they can be successful in life afterwards. Students with anxiety and depression sometimes question if it is really worth it to keep trying and pushing themselves. Students pushing themselves could be either good or bad it seems that people with depression have trouble dealing with all the stress leading them down a bad road worsening the

“Previous studies that examined the link between bullying and depression have determined that the two are related. For instance, adults who are depressed are more likely to recall being bullied as kids. However, it's possible that adults without depression were bullied as well but have put the abuse out of their minds…Name-calling was the most common type of bullying, with 36% of teens saying they had been on the receiving end of this behavior, including 9% who were victimized frequently. Twenty-two percent of the teens said bullies had taken things from them. Beyond that, 16% of the teens said bullies had spread lies about them, 11% said they had been hit or beaten up, 10% were shunned by their peers, 9% said they had been blackmailed, 8% said bullies tried to get them to do something they didn't want to do, 8% said they had been tricked, and 5% said bullies had spoiled a game to upset them. Most of this bullying was never reported to teachers, and the 13-year-olds didn't tell their families about one-third of the time.” (Kaplan) Bullying happens to people at least one point in their life, but some people don’t receive help or they cannot cope with it and make something good out of it like a good message in life, etc. People that are bullied are more