Write an essay about depression according plan.5 pages long. On time!

Plan

1) Write introduction, Hook, Thesis about depression

Recognition of the first signs of depression is difficult but helps to treat depression better.

Druds&Medication; Stay home alone or do to travel; Rely on professionals and relatives, because they want to help you. Now let’s consider how two authors Bruce Springsteen and Krictine Newman; their stories and how they went through problems with depression

Middle. [4pages]

2) Summary Bruce Springsteen. In autobiography Born to Run Bruce Springsteen wrote his life story from the childhood until current days. He shared his earliest memories about his family, time and place he leave. He had a dream and went to it all his live. In the book he talk about his difficult relationship with his father, few love affairs, colleagues from his band, and the love of his life his wife Patti. We can see how step by step he became a true rock star. He shares openly his problems with mental health and the way he got through it.

3) Summary Newman. In memoir written by Kristin Newman What I Was Doing While You Were Breeding, the author shares her long period of time with us. She wrote many stories about her trips to different countries. Mainly, she went to another countries to heal her emotional wounds after long boring relationship. She travels to meet new people, especially boys. She created short term relationship with local guys and that way she used to know more about place she was. Newman went to all these adventures to prove that a woman may travel alone around the world.

4) Explore your thesis.

Quotes Springsteen: (He had diagnosed with severe depression)

· He was against any kind of drugs, but he took medications prescribed by doctor when was diagnosed with severe depression. “I’ve been on antidepressants for the last twelve to fifteen years of my life… They work. I return to Earth, home and my family” (Springsteen 485)

· “Patti coaxed me out of bed and tried to get me moving. She steadied me, gave the confidence to feel I’d be all right and that this was something that was just passing. Without her strength and calm, I don’t know what I would have done” (Springsteen 500).

· After his father death he was in depression for long period of time. He was sleeping outside of home and did not want to communicate to anyone.

Quotes Newman: (she felt depressed after broke up her boyfriend Vito)

· She went to travel when broke up with long term relationship. “I handled the heartbreak like many twenty-six-years-olds handled big break ups at the beginning of the third millennium: I pierced my belly button, … , and went to Amsterdam.

· “Drug makes you a better person” (Newman ) in her travel to Amsterdam, she and her friends they were arguing, but after some ecstasy they became understand each other better.

5) Ending section [at least half a page] Two different personalities chose their own way to heal in tough situation. Springsteen was more serious about his life, he tend to analyze a lot and it leads him to mental problem. Newman choose another way which was funny, interesting in other aspects and it did not go so deep inside and did not become a huge problem and complicate her life.

6) Works Cited

Kristin Newman What I Was Doing While You Were Breeding

Bruce Springsteen Born to Run