Seth Kutch

English1, -3rd

January 15, 2015

 

Effects Of Difficult Times

 

Eighteen percent of Americans have depression because of difficult times in today’s world. Suicide, thought of suicide and using drugs are all often a main side effect of bad depression in the average persons life. The effect of difficult times on people can cause one to go into a mental illness called depression and can help accomplish life goals.

There are many effects from having difficult times in someone’s life and depression is often one of the main effects. For example, well known actor Robin Williams committed suicide because of depression. Close friends to Robin had even said that Robin read the bible and there wasn’t a time he missed church. If depression gets to a point where it acts as if a drug and controls one’s mind, it could easily mean that their mental health is at its lowest. Suicide can also cause unthinkable actions like murder,feeling the need to break objects, or even causing one to steal. I often think of depression as a chain, depression of course being the first link of the chain and all of the other actions caused by depression being the rest of the chain. Difficult times can have many effects on humans and sometimes can control your mind but the bible says suicide does not help anything whatsoever.

Depression from difficult times is one effect, but a good outcome of difficult times is it can help accomplish life goals. For Instance, I used to struggle in reading class from the 3rd grade all the way to the 5th grade. The outcome of that was me working my tail feathers off trying to do the best I could do and now I’m making a B instead of a C. Many other students go through the same struggle that I do in classes like math, science and history. Half the students that end up flunking out in high school or fail a class learn the most important life lesson to learn, the effort you put into high school leads you to what you’ll do or accomplish in the future. With goal you fail, there will end up being two other goals you’ll accomplish.

Overall, dealing with depression or overcoming a failure to succeed can build character, help accomplish other goals, and even help with other failed goals.