A Study on the effects of Social Media to a Teenager experiencing Depression

Introduction
Nowadays, Social Media is a controversy topic, in the way that it can destroy your interaction or
relationship to anyone. People may think that social media is a great blessing to each and every
one of us. Social Media helps the introvert people to express what they can't express in public, it
can built relationships.
Social Media helps you to communicate with anyone. However, social media has also
disadvantages. Social Media can cause a distraction, it makes you feel like nothing else is going
around you, it reduces your closeness to your family, why? Because you're always doing twitter,
Facebook, Instagram not knowing that your loved ones is at your side. It has become prominent
part of life for many young people today. Most people engage with social media without
stopping to think what the effects are on our live whether it is a positive or negative.
Social Media is good to us, it makes our life much easier and helps us to gain more socialite to
the other person. Many parents worry about how exposure to technology might affects toddlers
developmentally. The pre-schoolers are picking up new social and cognitive skills at a stunning
pace, and none of us want hours glued to a gadgets.
But adolescents take us in an equally important period of rapid development, and how as a
teenager used of technology much more intense and intimate than a 3- year old playing with a
dad's I-Phone is affecting them. In fact, experts worry that the social media and text message that
have become so integral to teenage life and it’s promoting anxiety and lowering self- esteem to
others.
Social Media is a technology that we cannot avoid nowadays because this is really important.
However, we must put ourselves in an appropriate and good discipline for us to have a better
living.
Social Media can affects feelings and emotion to people, that's why the topic about depression
can experience by anyone. So before we proceed on depression, let’s analyze what is depression.
Because it is one of the effect of social media to us, and how it starts anyway?
Sometimes in our daily life we feel strange things that we usually don’t understand. Like the
feeling of too much sadness, we sometimes experience things that we don’t understand, like the
feeling of being lonely, emptiness, feeling down and having a such low self esteem.
Every night I cry and ask myself what is my purpose in this world, I don’t have problems in life.
I have a loving family, a loving friends and yet still I feel like there’s no one out there to comfort
me.
Until my sadness is slightly attacking me every single night, sometimes I just ignored it and just
sleep to let it pass, but it just keeps on repeating. Until I realize that I’m experiencing depression
and it quietly creeps upon me. At first you struggle with the little things, but still you choose to
ignore them.
Everyday you tell yourself that it’s okay it will be alright or it’s just another bad day, but it’s
not. Now you get used to ignore them and continue living to your life, because that’s what you
need to do to that’s what others do. But your problems still don’t go away and you struggle to
pretend everyday, until it starts to cost you more and more. Depression is really a serious matter,
it is a common mental disorder, that will make you feel things are so hard to handle. It slowly
takes a person’s life without knowing the reason why he/she takes his life. According to Centers
for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), 7.6 percent of people over age of 12 has
experiencing depression in any 2 week period.
Depression is now the common illness around the world according to World Health Organization
(WHO), The total estimated of people who are affected by depression globally is 350 million.
According to Neel Burton M.D, Women are more affected by depression than men. The reason
why women are more affected by depression than man is because women are more commonly
put more resources into connections than men. Connections issue are likely influence them
more, so they are bound to create wretchedness.
There are numerous variety of depression, An Episode depression is one of them. A depressive
depression includes an indications such as discouraged state of mind, loss of intrigue and
happiness, and expanded fatigability. Contingent upon the number and seriousness of side
effects, a depressive episode can be ordered as gentle, moderate, or extreme.
A person with a mild depressive episode will have some trouble in proceeding with a common
work and social exercises, however not to the degree that it fundamentally represents a boundary
to exercises of everyday living. During a serious burdensome scene, then again, it is in all
respects far-fetched that the sufferer will almost certainly proceed with social, work, or
residential exercises, but to an extremely constrained degree.
However, let’s focus on how social media leads to a depression. Facebook, twitter, Instagram is
one of the part of the everyday life of a people. They mostly spent their time doing and scrolling
social media posting everything, and doing every trends that they see. The age 12-34 are more
likely use social media than older groups for interaction purposes.
There are various types of bullying in social media that may lead into depression or as it worst
may lead to death.
The utilization of hardware and the web has offered ascend to another type of tormenting alluded
to as cyber-bullying. Cyber-bullying can be defined as an intentionally aggressive or harmful act
executed by a bully through an electronic form of contact (Bayraktar et al.,2015, p. 3193).
The attributes of cyber-bullying are like those of customary harassing, which allude to verbal,
physical also, social types of tormenting, in light of the fact that the two of them must include an
injured individual and a forceful or harmful bully.
Victims people who are focused by cyber-bullies are regularly the individuals who have been
dismissed by their companions and are viewed as having low confidence and a low discretion.
Cyber-bullying has been found to lead depression and suicidal ideations.
Depression is a major depressive disorder and it is a common and serious medical illness that
negatively affects how you feel, the way you think and how you act. Fortunately, it is also
treatable. Depression causes feelings of sadness and/or a loss of interest in activities once
enjoyed. It can lead to a variety of emotional and physical problems and can decrease a person’s
ability to function at work and at home.

Depression symptoms can vary from mild to severe and can include feeling sad or having a
depressed mood, Loss of interest or pleasure in activities once enjoyed, changes in appetite
weight loss or gain unrelated to dieting, trouble sleeping or sleeping too much, Loss of energy or
increased fatigue, Increase in purposeless physical activity example of this is a hand-wringing or
pacing or slowed movements and speech or actions observable by others, feeling worthless or
guilty, difficulty thinking, concentrating or making decisions, and thoughts of death or suicide.

Symptoms last at least two weeks for a diagnosis of depression.

Also, medical conditions example of this are thyroid problems, a brain tumor or vitamin
deficiency that can mimic symptoms of depression so it is important to rule out general medical
causes.
Depression affects an estimated one in 15 adults (6.7%) in any given year. And one in six people
(16.6%) will experience depression at some time in their life. Depression can strike at any time,
but on average, first appears during the late teens to mid-20s. Women are more likely than men
to experience depression. Some studies show that one-third of women will experience a major
depressive episode in their lifetime.

Risk factors for Depression can affect anyone even a person who appears to live in relatively
ideal circumstances.
This is how depression is being treated. Depression is among the most treatable of mental
disorders. Between 80 percent and 90 percent of people with depression eventually respond well
to treatment. Almost all patients gain some relief from their symptoms.

Before a diagnosis or treatment, a health professional should conduct a thorough diagnostic

evaluation, including an interview and possibly a physical examination. In some cases, a blood
test might be done to make sure the depression is not due to a medical condition like a thyroid
problem. The evaluation is to identify specific symptoms, medical and family history, cultural
factors and environmental factors to arrive at a diagnosis and plan a course of action. In
depression we can get a self-hope and coping and there are a number of things people can do to
help reduce the symptoms of depression. For many people, regular exercise helps create positive
feeling and improve mood. Getting enough quality sleep on a regular basis, eating a healthy diet
and avoiding alcohol like a depressant that can also help reduce symptoms of depression.

Depression is a real illness and help is available, with proper diagnosis and treatment, the vast
majority of people with depression will overcome it. If you are experiencing symptoms of
depression, a first step is to see your family physician or psychiatrist. Talk about your concerns
and request a thorough evaluation. This is a start to addressing mental health needs.

Depression is not simply a temporary change in mood or a sign of weakness. It is a real medical
condition with many emotional, physical, behavioural and cognitive symptoms.

Many people are ashamed or afraid to ask for help. Others shrug off their symptoms and end up
suffering in silence. Contrary to some misconceptions, depression is neither inevitable nor is it a
character flaw. People with depression often get these ideas because of the feeling of guilt caused
by the illness. Depression is a real health problem for which help is available. But you must be
aware of it and know how to ask for help.

Depression is not a normal part of growing older, and it should never be taken lightly.
Unfortunately, depression often goes undiagnosed and untreated in older adults, and they may
feel reluctant to seek help. Symptoms of depression may be different or less obvious in older
adults, such as memory difficulties or personality changes, physical aches or pain, fatigue, loss of
appetite, sleep problems or loss of interest in sex not caused by a medical condition or
medication, often wanting to stay at home, rather than going out to socialize or doing new things,
suicidal thinking or feelings, especially in older me.
It can also have a complications like excess weight or obesity, which can lead to heart disease
and diabetes, pain or physical illness, alcohol or drug misuse, anxiety, panic disorder or social
phobia, family conflicts, relationship difficulties, and work or school problems, social isolation,
suicidal feelings, suicide attempts or suicide, self-mutilation, such as cutting, premature death
from medical conditions.

There's no sure way to prevent depression. However, these strategies may help. And above all,
we must put our trust in God and in ourselves.
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