Depression

Kristy was a victim of depression, however, she personally didn’t go through it. When she was ten years old her brother began to struggle with depression. His name was Ryan, he was about six years older than her and was someone that loved to be secluded from others, or that was what we all thought. Ryan lacked in social skill;, he couldn’t hold a conversation or start a conversation with peers. This resulted in his inability to make friends, and he responded to this problem by getting closer to his family rather than trying to befriend with kids his age. Things at home eventually didn’t work out for Ryan either because his father was rarely home and more at work to support the family. His mother took up a part-time job to lessen the burden of his father as a sole provider.  This left him with his sister as his only source of human interaction. Ryan started to feel lonely because he didn’t have anything to keep his mind off of his isolation. So, he resorted to the internet as his escape. Social media can be a cruel place for a teenager like Ryan who doesn’t know how to get real help. Being in a state of mind such as that of Ryan’s could eventually make things worse because he might be able to compare his life to that of others. Unfortunately, depression took a hold of Ryan and as time went on it became worse. Months passed by with no one noticing his depression. So, he resorted to the only thing that he knew would solve his problem, suicide. Killing himself was the only solution for Ryan as he thought it would end his suffering and that slipping into nothingness was easier to bare than living this life. On the day he decided to commit suicide, by cutting his wrists, his mother unexpectedly got off of work early. She found him unconscious in his room  with blood all over the floor. He was quickly rushed to the hospital and when he was stabilize and his life was not in danger anymore the family realized that Ryan needed to be put into a program to help him deal with depression. No one in his family and at school saw this coming, he looked and seemed perfectly fine. Depression is a silent killer if it is not caught on time because the signs are not like a physical illness.