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You Are Not Alone | Sophia Sessley | TEDxYouth@Columbus


my life lesson is sometimes when I say
I’m okay I need someone to look me in
the eyes hug me and say I know you’re
not when I was in the second grade I
found her that my best friend is moving
to Florida at the end of the school year
we only had a couple months off together
every day after school the top bunk of
my bunk bed look out the window and cry
my eyes out
my mother would climb up there with me
and say even though you say I’m fine or
I’m okay deep down I know you’re not
it’s best to open up to people by
letting how you feel
talking talking someone you can find a
solution to your problem and you can
fill it make yourself feel better little
things will make me upset like when I
work on the computer and I accidentally
delete everything I wrote note this
happened five times while writing the
speech these are all things that build
up inside me till eventually boom I blow
up the boom is different than every
person and me it is crying and anger so
take a moment just think about it
what’s the boom and you see a lot of
people will take this sorrow and push it
deep deep down inside them they push it
aside for later the sorrow will get
bigger and bigger so eventually it first
and that can hurt your happiness
happiness is good for your health
happiness is proven to strengthen your
immune system decreased pain and chronic
disease and provide stress relief so
this brings me to a question what is
depression
well depression is the persistent
feeling of loss and interest and things
you love and one of the main types is
clinical depression clinical depression
is it starts to affect your daily life
and you get really upset and grumpy you
start you can’t talk about it to people
you feel that they don’t understand and
that if you try to you’ll end up just
hurting yourself more so since we ended
it on a sad topic well let’s have a
little quiz who was the voice of Maui in
the Disney movie Moana and the six foot
five two three
can anyone guess the voice of Maui the
Dwayne Johnson the rock suffered from
depression at a young age his depression
even quotes have faith in yourself no
matter what happens life and that just
proves that sadness is only temporary at
the end of everything there will always
be something good The Rock’s depression
led him to his wrestling career which
then led him to his acting career and
now he is known worldwide you have to
fit these are the points everyone can’t
get depressed
everyone will most likely need someone
and everybody will most likely hide it
you must face the facts in life there is
depression there is sadness and there is
dark times at but keep in mind at the
end of all of this there was always
something good thank you [Applause]
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