Argument Essay 2

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Rayne Kemick
Period 6B
Mrs. Cramer
15 May 2020
Depression in Isolation
While the world is in quarantine to protect us from getting ill, for people, staying inside is
slowly killing them. Teenagers today are finding it harder to stay happy and keep their
motivation up during this pandemic. Quarantine has an impact on three important elements of
mental health - emotional well-being, psychological well-being and social well-being. Lately,
cases of mental health are taking a turn for the worse instead of the better.
First, emotional well-being is one of two aspects of personal wellness that can be
measured in the number of life assessments, the other being 'life evaluation', the evaluation of
one's life in general against a scale. High schoolers sat in a classroom for seven or more hours a
day, five days a week and took paper-pencil notes. Transitioning from public to online school is
one of the biggest stressors among teens during quarantine. Certain things that were accessible to
high school students, such as always having a teacher or being able to alter how questions are
asked to them, they don’t have the luxury of anymore. Test scores have gone down since starting
online school, and one of the main reasons for that is test questions are asked in a way that high
schoolers today have never had them asked before. Grades mean everything to high schoolers
who want to get into a good college but to parents, grades are a life or death situation.
Decreasing test scores leave most teenagers feeling inadequate, or like a disappointment to their
parents for not maintaining their normal high grades. Parents also don’t help the situation by
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yelling at their children or downgrading them in any way because of their grades. This type of
negative environment can lead teenagers to feeling depressed and raise anxiety.
Next, psychosocial well-being is a person's emotional life (feelings, thoughts, attitudes)
and social life (relationships, and the influences of family, peers and community) all affect
psychosocial well-being. For teenagers who already didn’t want to get out of bed daily have
absolutely no reason to anymore, therefore increasing or creating depression. The reasons
teenagers even went to school was because they could see their friends and significant others.
Relationships are going to fail during quarantine, couples who were used to seeing each other
every day, suddenly can't anymore. This can create a feeling of drifting away from one another
and increasing trust issues, anxiety in relationships and even puts thoughts of being cheated on
into someone's head. The teenagers who have a bad home life have it even harder, especially if
school was their escape from mentally or physically abusive parents or caregivers. Suicidal rates
have also predicted to raise by the end of quarantine because teens are being left alone with their
own thoughts and have access to the things, they use to harm themselves.
Therefore, social well-being is the act of having good relationships, social stability and
peace. People are social creatures who are mutually dependent on one another, relying on others
for their well-being. To be socially well people need to give love and receive love. To have
inadequate social well-being can include panic attacks; increased paranoia; and impulse control.
Go on pretty much any social media platform, you’ll see that teenagers all over the world are
cutting or dying their hair. Having no impulse control, means they will do things without
thinking clearly about the aftermath. Another form of having no impulse control is the teenagers
who have recently decided that they wanted to give themselves a stick-n-poke tattoo or pierce
their body unprofessionally. Teenagers today are also ruining their sleeping schedules by staying
up all night and sleeping all day, which means they broke their original routine of getting up at a
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certain time of day. Humans crave a sense of routine, which is why teenagers hate being given
assign seats in class. However, when given the option to sit anywhere they would like, they
generally pick the exact same seat every day.
Lastly, often peoples only counterargument is, being in quarantine is giving teenagers a
sense of responsibility and show them that they need to grow up. However, that counterargument
makes absolutely no sense. Teenagers get up every day, five days a week to go to school for
seven hours a day. Which adds up to roughly thirty-five hours a week, forty hours is a full-time
job. Being at school is a teenager's full-time job. Even after school, teens still have
responsibilities at home, which they complete even with the thirty-five hours of schoolwork a
week.
In conclusion, cases of mental health are taking a turn for the worse instead of the better.
Quarantine has an impact on three important elements of mental health - emotional well-being,
psychological well-being and social well-being, each affects teenager today in different ways.
Teenagers must work especially hard during quarantine to remain sane, and to prevent further
depression from happining.

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Next, psychosocial well-being is a person's emotional life (feelings, thoughts, attitudes)

absolutely no reason to anymore, therefore increasing or creating depression. The reasons

generally pick the exact same seat every day.

depression from happining.

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