Examples Of Depression In The Perks Of Being A Wallflower

This entire book highlights both the high and low points in Charlie’s life, and how he changed and has not changed all from his constant value of friendship to his many realizations, based on the one experimental surgery that gave him insight on what life would be like if he was “normal”.

In this quote he states that he can “feel the darkness closing in” and he can not seem to shake off the idea of killing himself. This shows that he is in a super depressing place and he wants it to end. He says that he can physically feel the bad taking over his body. Charlie would not have been experiencing these terrible feelings if he had not done the surgery. If Charlie had known how much pain this surgery would have given him and all for nothing, then he would not have done it.

Then he goes into a depression because there is absolutely nothing he can do himself to help him regain his knowledge. The doctors didn’t do anything to help him. The only person that helped him was the woman that was hired to take care of him while he was going through his stages of amnesia. The doctors didn’t help Charlie when he was going through his decrease of intelligence even though it was their

but he never wanted to give up, he wanted to get smart. When Charlie got smart he was at a different point of view in life, no one understood him, he was so intelligent not even his doctors knew what he was talking about. Before charlie was smart he didn't understand anyone then he got so intelligent know one understood him. His whole life either he couldn't understand them or they couldn't understand him. They traded places with understanding each other, it came in a full circle because in the beginning charlie didn't understand anyone and now at the end it's right back to where he was before.

Charlie depicts feelings of guilt and self-blame for his aunt’s death. It is perceived that he has repressed harsh memories of his aunt, although this resulted in negative flashbacks to occur which progressively began to affect his mental stability. It is understood that he suffers from post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) as a consequence of being molested by his aunt when he was young. This ultimately caused lasting mental trauma on him.

and I still want to be smart. Please. please let me not forget to read and write,” (10,11) By looking at this evidence, we can see that he was scared of what was going to happen to him, and had no choice but to leave his loved ones. Some may say, however, that Charlie had a choice, and he hurt the ones he loved because he wanted to.

Furthermore, he finds happiness in the smallest pleasures in his daily life. Before his surgery, he lives happily without feeling physical and emotional pain. After the procedure, he finds out that Algernon, a mouse who goes through the same operation as him, starts digressing downhill and his mental ability to be intelligent starts to go away. Charlie is wretched because he knows that this will soon happen to him. Moreover, he has become alienated from all of the people he loves. Charlie recalls that "[he is] alone at Mrs. Flynn's boarding house most of the time I seldom speak to anyone"(___). He has nothing to hold onto, and he even has thoughts of suicide. " Dr. Straus came to see me again... I told him to go away...I am touchy and irritable.

And I don’t know what it is.” (137) throughout the story, getting more and more concentrated towards the end. Charlie engages in spirals of thought, often leading in him to abandon some letters, “I have to stop doing this, I am getting to sad.” (168) and his negative character development begins to be the driving plotline of this story.

Charlie is almost like a starving animal, so desperate to learn right off the bat. These boring textbooks are fun to him, a need really as he viewed the knowledge inside to be valuable and a necessity. Lastly towards the end, as Charlie reverted back to his original mental state, instead of writing past wrongs, he continued to torture himself "[putting] down [his] thoughts and ideas in [the] progress reports" (255). Charlie described the journal entries as "one of his few solitary pleasures" which really goes to show little he pleasures he had in life. As a child, the concept of having knowledge was drilled into Charlie that it would make him happy, and his mother

On page four while he was having his dream, he rescued Joan from the river. After he woke up, he realized the dream was a message telling him to become friends with Joan. On page seven it states, “...what he had taken for cruelty had been love, that far from hating her everybody had loved her from the beginning…” This proves that Charlie could have showed his true opinions in the first place. These parts of the story are when Charlie realizes that he should have shown his own opinions in the first place, instead of trying to become

In the movie Charlie has many predicaments involving his mental health,

He describes how much this scares him, and he includes that this is one of the reasons that he has decided to begin anonymously writing these letters (Chbosky 1). In the following letters that go on to explain his high school experience, the reader can only view the story from Charlie’s point of view. This can contribute to the idea of semi-reliable narration in the novel because the whereabouts and feelings of the other characters are usually unknown to the

Later in the movie, Charlie spend time in a psychiatric hospital from the previous summer because of his friend Michael committed suicide. This paper will examine Charlie symptoms of Post-traumatic stress disorder, social phobia, and major depression which might have routed from his PTSD. These factors cause him to him have a breakdown and flashbacks that he can’t control off. He wants to be understood by society and want to know why he is feeling sad

“Depression is a mood disorder which is characterized by the intense feeling of sadness, which usually lasts about a week or so”, and can affect social behaviors or the persons own well being. “Some of the symptoms of depression involve feeling very helpless, having a lost of interest in activities, appetite or weight changes, Changes in the person sleep pattern, psychomotor agitation, the loss of energy, followed by seth loathing, and lack of concentration”. Charlie's character has lost everything in his life after losing his wife and kids in the september11th plain crash, usually after a traumatic event or experience occurs in someones life they go through the” five stages of morning”, but it just happens to be that Charlie is still stuck in the first stage, which is denial and isolation, and still in that phase even after a year has past. Charlie had chosen to be in his own sort of world and just forget everything about his past. Charlie had came to a point where he really could not function anymore, in his everyday live, such as his job as a dentist or even talking with friends.

Today’s teenagers are faced with the ever changing world around them and the biological changes of their bodies. Many teens are also faced with depression. Approximately half of teenagers with untreated depression may attempt suicide, which remains the third leading cause of death in this age group. (Bostic). This depression affects their school, family lives, and robs them of their self image. Depression affects many teens and often goes by unnoticed and untreated.