As Sunday night arrives most college students prepare by filling their backpacks with books for the coming week. But for Cal State Long Beach student Rachel Keeney, that process also involves making sure she takes her dosage of the anti-depressant Zoloft. Keeney suffers from depression.
The non-profit Dosomething.org, which promotes youth-driven social change, estimates that every year around 20 million Americans suffer from depression. Women are twice as likely to suffer from it than men.
“I would get really sad and dark thoughts,” said Keeney, 20.
Keeney was diagnosed with depression just out of high school in 2011. She said the trigger for her depression was the fear of losing her friends.
“It’s hard for me to make friends. I’m very reclusive, very introverted,” said Keeney, who added that feelings of being unappreciated at work or home also served as triggers.
[For more of this story, written by Wendy Manjivar, go to http://newamericamedia.org/201...-while-depressed.php]
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