The Rise of Depression in Teenage Girls

Depression is one of the most common health problems in the United States today. Adolescent suicide is now responsible for more deaths in youths aged fifteen to nineteen than cardiovascular disease or cancer. Despite this increased suicide rate, depression in this age group is greatly underdiagnosed and leads to serious difficulties in school, work and personal adjustment which may often continue into adulthood It affects about 17.8million people each year, almost half of these being …

…different ways. The ideals that are placed into a young women's head tell her in order to be accepted she must be beautiful, popular, independent, skinny, and smart. It is not the girls of today that have caused this problem, it is the world they are brought up in. How the mind of young women work can never be changed, it is what the world puts into it that will make the difference. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ **Bibliography**