- I am going to focus on Hazel Grace and her experience with life through her time of depression plus having cancer and how that affected her and others.
- Hazel started to become very depressed after she found out she had stage 4 lung cancer at a very young age. This led to her situation becoming ten times worse.
- Hazel didn’t have much history with depression before finding out she had cancer.
- When Hazel started becoming very depressed her parents were the first to notice, because she didn’t communicate with others at the time. Hazels parents started to worry dearly so they tried to send her to a social group with other teens who dealt with the same situations. They also tried different medications and pretty much anythjng they could. I think they were very concerned, because who wouldn’t be but also because they are her parents.
- People dont react odd to it, because the very few people Hazel ossaciates with also deal with the same situations.
- Hazel began to make her sitaution worse. She began to isolate herself from basically everyone, never leaving her room, reading the same book over and over again, and more. All of these leading her depression into a bigger state. Before Hazel started these actions she wasn’t as down on the situation, she felt more positive towards it.
- Since Hazel has started going to her teen group weekly she has started opening up to people which has helped her, because now she doesn’t have to keep it all inside and now she knows she’s not alone. The group has effected her in a very positive way, because now she’s not as sad and she met the love of her life and started leaving her. House and exploring the world.
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