TED Talks- Conquering Depression

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TED TALKS-
Conquering Depression: how I became my own hero-Hunter Kent

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Rv9SwZWVkOs

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Hunter Kent:

Hunter Kent is a senior in Cape Elizabeth High School in the USA.
She spent a few years (grades 8-10) in her life fighting through self harm and depression. She was a very quiet and shy person feeling as if the whole world was against her, suffering through the pain she felt. Hunter tried to make herself feel better by trying to do a few different things like cutting her skin, but that only made it worse. Eventually, she started feeling better about herself after her parents sent her to a camp where she talked about what was happening with her and now she openly speaks about her past and how her is future is going to be better.

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I think we should watch this video because depression and self harm by cutting your skin just to make you feel better is a serious issue. People do it because they feel emotionally abused, bullied, or they're are suffering from a tragedy. Hunter Kent talks about her depression story and what she did to get over it because depression does not make you feel good. And if you fight with it instead of against it, then you will never be able to conquer it, and it will hurt you so hard that it may even kill you.

Depression is not easy to get over but Hunter Kent wanted to share her story and today, she feels good about being herself and she isn't cutting herself anymore, she is no longer bearing the pain of depression. We should watch this video because talking about depression in her camp helped Hunter and it could help so many other people get over this horrible addiction of self harm due to depression.

My Latest Drawing

Hey! I just finished a new drawing. I tried to recreate a waterfall scene. I hope you like it and please leave a comment to tell me how you like it. :)

Journal Prompt

We've done many different writing prompts, but I personally loved this writing prompt because it was difficult to think about what I'd do on a rainy day. Even if its not my best writing, it was great writing about this topic. So....

On a rainy day....

I personally love rainy days as much as beautiful sunny days. I enjoy the rain very much because I love getting wet. I enjoy being outside because I feel free. It's where I can forget about all the problems in the world. With the grey skies with the nothing but clouds above. With the foggy air and the wet roads. It may sound horrendous to most people, but to me, it sounds as perfect as any other perfect day. And nothing could change that.

On this perfect rainy day, there are multiple things that I could do. First of all, I would roller blade around the neighbourhood with my friends in the rain. The splashes of water. The pouring rain. It feels amazing because you feel the fresh air and the cold air. It makes me feel like I'm in a different world. After, I would watch all of The Hunger Games movies all over again which are: The Hunger Games, Catching Fire, Mockingjay Part 1, and Mockingjay part 2 because I am obsessed with them and I could never get tired of the movies or the books. This would take at least 8 hours of my day. Finally, I would read Divergent. All of my friends say that the series is awesome. They say that it is as good as the Hunger Games or maybe even better. And if it's that good then I definitely have to read it. I really want to read the series before I watch the movies and I am excited for this perfect rainy day.

I think that any day can be perfect. From cold winter snow to hot summer days. It doesn't matter about the day to me, it's about what you do on that day. That's what makes your day perfect. A day isn't made perfect for you. You have to make it perfect. That's why to me, a rainy day can be perfect and that is what I'd do on the perfect rainy day.

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My Best Photo

I've taken a few pictures in groups and by myself. The photo I am presenting to you a photo from our Rebound assignment. This photo basically gets further into David's character. David was always a very tempered person as we found out in the beginning of the book, but we also found out that he was a great artist as well.

I think that this is one of my best photos because I thought that it was the best out of our collection of three. You could see that your attention is quickly drawn to the pencil. We tried to have the pencil pop out, and it does because of the different colour, which indicates that the person, is very good with the pencil. And to get more focus on the pencil, we blurred the background a little, but we wanted the drawing to stand out a little.

This was personally my favourite photo. Let me know what you think!