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    1) Teenage depression is a serious medical illness that affects 42% of adolescents in Malaysia and can be caused by academic pressure, peer pressure, family conflicts, bullying, and childhood trauma. 2) Victims of depression are often blamed for their condition but it is usually the result of negative influences from others and life experiences outside of their control. 3) Unhealthy family environments, where parents are unsupportive or critical, can contribute to teenage depression as teens need love and understanding, not criticism, from their families.

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    1) Teenage depression is a serious medical illness that affects 42% of adolescents in Malaysia and can be caused by academic pressure, peer pressure, family conflicts, bullying, and childhood trauma. 2) Victims of depression are often blamed for their condition but it is usually the result of negative influences from others and life experiences outside of their control. 3) Unhealthy family environments, where parents are unsupportive or critical, can contribute to teenage depression as teens need love and understanding, not criticism, from their families.

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    1) Teenage depression is a serious medical illness that affects 42% of adolescents in Malaysia and can be caused by academic pressure, peer pressure, family conflicts, bullying, and childhood trauma. 2) Victims of depression are often blamed for their condition but it is usually the result of negative influences from others and life experiences outside of their control. 3) Unhealthy family environments, where parents are unsupportive or critical, can contribute to teenage depression as teens need love and understanding, not criticism, from their families.

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    TEENAGE DEPRESSION: WHO GETS THE BLAME

    Assalammualaikum w.b.t and hi everybody! I hope each of you will have a good day. I am
    Alyaa Waheedah binti Herzulzaid. I stand before you today as to catch your attention all,
    on the topic of 'TEENAGE DEPRESSION: WHO GETS THE BLAME?"

    First of all, the definition of Depression is a common and serious medical illness that
    negatively affects how you feel, the way you think and how you act. Depression causes
    feelings of sadness or a loss of interest in activities you once enjoyed. Depression also can
    affect your daily life. For example, you may have trouble sleeping, losing appetite, fatigue
    everyday and the most dangerous is recurrent thoughts of death or suicide. In fact, suicidal
    cases are quite common in Malaysia, the number of reported suicidal cases among
    teenagers have been increasing over the years and sadly, the age of who attempt suicide is
    getting younger too. At the same time, do you ever wonder that there are teenagers whose
    struggling with depression?

    Judges and audiences,

    Statistics show that there are 42% or 424,000 adolescents suffering from depression in
    Malaysia. Recently, there are news that 'Depressed student allegedly commits suicide
    because of academic pressure'. Unfortunately, that victim of commit suicide the one who
    gets the blame. This is unfair right? We cannot blame them a 100 percent. The student was
    suffered from depression because of academic pressure. Most likely she was lonely so she
    tried to hold back all the feelings of being alone. As a result of bearing heavy problems, she
    chose to commit suicide because of a great criticism from those around her. Furthermore,
    the occurrence of mental health issues among students are caused by many factors,
    including peer pressure, harsh parenting styles, family conflicts and many other reasons.
    Basically this is not the victim’s fault but the person who negatively impacted them by
    changing the way the victim thinks and feels about themselves. However, there are several
    reasons and causes why teenagers face depression either at school or at home

    To begin with, the closest society of the teenagers is their family. Not all teenager most
    likely to have a happy family. Some of them are choosing to run away from home just to
    escape a problematic family. This is due to unhealthy environment provided by their
    family. For example, parents always think that if their kids are having a mental illness, they
    be thought oh! they're child being an attention seeker. So, parents should have done deep
    talking about it face to face with their child. They need love, probably seeking help and not
    a criticism especially from their own flesh and blood. Also, parents should know when and
    how to express their thought because children are just like glass, they are very fragile.
    Next, having an early childhood trauma such as, being tortured physically or
    emotionally, or loss of a parent, may cause changes in the brain that increase the risk of
    depression. For instance, expressing hopelessness for the future, giving up on one's self
    and talking as if no one else cares. Their trauma can affect their intellect about thinking
    all people are bad people just like their abuser until being an adult. Although, we can
    help them by listening to their problems, support them until they can live like a normal
    teenager, and plays with them just like in childhood's day to replace the worse
    childhood trauma.

    Besides that, school pressure. Many teens experience some degree academic pressure.
    They are worried if they can't achieve the expectations and started to blame themselves.
    Thus, poor school performance and frequent absences from school happen.
    Consequently, the students can be stressful and might having a mental breakdown.
    They are needing a deep rest from all of that, not too fast but maybe taking 3 month to
    recover back. Then, bullying. Bullying is directly correlated with adolescent depression
    in school. Victims of bullying in school are scared to tell anybody about what happened
    to them. The cause is the bullies mock them by mental and physical such as, hitting
    victim's property. Hence, the victims are traumatized and can develop a depression also
    may thinking to commit suicide.

    Frankly, of having other mental health conditions, such as anxiety or stress is a


    common situation. I actually sympathize for those who have depression and other
    mental health conditions. That must be hard with those morbidity. To recover from
    those, it is not easy because teenagers have to swallow various type of medicine, going to
    meet the psychologist every month will be troublesome also they could be do something
    beyond the mind which is might harm themselves.

    Dearest judges and members of the floor,

    From this point, we need people awareness to look into this matter seriously. If we are
    concern about this case, a lot of teenagers will be happy and they will learn anything
    what they desire without any limitations.

    Last but not least, i have to end my speech here. It's been an honor to be among such
    accomplished individuals and to be able to present my perspective. Thank you and have
    a good day.

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