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School really does cause depression. Studies show that our school system isn't good for kids now, and it has a huge effect on our growing, unprepared minds. I have literally cried over freaking school more times than I can remember. If we could change our school system, it wouldn't be that way. This education system causes depression, and other studies show that certain video games can help that depression get better, so piling more homework onto us won't help, and blaming it on video games is not right. Also, depression is a mental illness that can be treated with professional women therapy or other therapeutic treatments, sometimes being certain video games or other hobbies. And yes, I do know what I'm talking about, I have had depression before, during the school year. It went away during summer break, and then it came back after school started again. I have heard similar stories from other people, in person or otherwise. This notion that school can't cause depression is absolutely wrong.

Exactly. The person making this meme really needs to get a brain. School DOES cause depression

Literally everyone cries about school at some point. Being sad is not the same as having depression. Depression is caused my a chemical imbalance in the brain...not homework. If someone is already depressed then *any* responsiblity can make the symptoms worse, but saying that school changes the chemical makeup of your brain is just idiotic.

so you mean me thinking about jumping off the second story in 8th grade because i wanted to be rid of my little insignificant life PART of that burden being homework isnt depression?

Go back and actually read what I said. Maybe see if a teacher can help you with the more difficult words. If you actually had depression then you would have it regardless of external factors like homework. You just want to be a victim and have people feel sorry for you.

If you spent as much time learning how to live with depression as you do whining about and lying about what causes it then you would be in a much better place mentally.

Depression can go on and off, depending on the person. And also, mind you, I'm still in school and still want therapy, but am too scared without telling my parents, but they wont let me drive yet, ohterwise I would have gotten therpay. And, I have been learning about it and how to deal with it, and it is better now, and the school situation is better now. I'm not just trying to victimize myself, or make people feel bad for me, so if that is what you thought I wanted to do, you're wrong. And one other thing, I am to this day too scared to tell my parents that I wanted therapy and still do. They will most likely laugh or say that it's not true, just like you just did. People will open up to others just to have things like this happen. I have gotten as much help I can get, and like I said earlier, it's much better now that I don't have nearly as much homework. Something I had to tell people was not to tell me or other people who were depressed/suicidal that they don't have depression, because that will only make it worse. So please, in the future, don't tell anybody that they don't have depression and that they are suicidal for no reason.

You really don't need to remind me that you're a child. It is very obvious. You nay want to remind *yourself* that you're a child, and your self-diagnosis doesn't really mean anything to anybody who knows what they're talking about.

Seriously, your mommy and daddy tell you when you can drive but you think you have the doctorate-level of understanding needed to diagnose yourself?

You know you're losing when they stop giving facts and are just trying to insult you. Also, just because my parents won't bring me to therapy doesn't mean they didn't drive me to get diagnosed with depression by a person who is a doctor. Also, I've been begging my parents to let me drive, but they will not.

...Except therapists are the people who make a diagnosis of depression. It's embarrassing how little you know about this topic.

dr. nacy [lats name here] diagnosed me.