If I could cure any disease it would be Depression. I'm not sure if it is a disease or a disorder but it was what I wanted to talk about.
Depression is hard to fully explain, this is my explanation: it is caused when high amounts of stress or other prolonging emotions build up and become to hard to handle for most people so they resort to an easier way for their body to cope with emotions. Often not being able to be happy, laying around and letting your mind go where ever it wants instead of structured thinking; people with depression receive this dulling, sinking feeling in their chests, like they have weights on their shoulders and in their heart.This is what leads to other ways of dealing with these emotions, suicide.
How you are diagnosed:
This little part I kind of stole from another website..
Depression is a condition that is characterized by the presence of at least five of the following nine symptoms for at least two weeks in adults or one week in children or adolescents:
- A depressed mood during most of the day, particularly in the morning.
- Fatigue or loss of energy almost every day.
- Feelings of worthlessness or guilt almost every day.
- Impaired concentration, indecisiveness.
- Insomnia or hypersomnia (excessive sleeping) almost every day.
- Markedly diminished interest or pleasure in almost all activities nearly every day.
- Recurring thoughts of death or suicide (not just fearing death).
- A sense of restlessness, or being slowed down.
- Significant weight loss or gain
Depression can be caused by Death, Abuse, Major events, Illnesses, Personal problems, and even genetics. The top 5 things you can do to help prevent depression, and help yourself from becoming depressed
Manage stress and be sure to Get your rest.
Don’t take on too much and Allow yourself to feel your emotions.
Take care of your health and Exercise regularly.
Refrain from consuming alcohol or using tobacco or other narcotics.
Build your self-esteem by doing things you are good at.
This year the choices for the desert dance are Glow-in-the-Dark, Night in Hawaii, and Neverland. Personally I think these are really hard dance topics to do. There is always going to be a conflict. These are my answers to these questions. I would really like to see the Glow in the dark theme.
My visions for decorations would be something like this: The room would be completely dark except for lights everywhere and black lights, that way there would be some light but not too much to ruin the dance. Plus the black light will light up anything glow in the dark, neon, or white. That way it would make it easier to dress up. The photo booths would be: Something to sit on and a black light glowing overhead to light up their clothes, and the backdrop would be black paper with glow in the dark splatters on it.