Classroom Presentation 8

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The individual who… are overcame depression is, in my university, is my best friend Lucy. We are currently studying in the same undergraduate, uh, in the same undergraduate education. And we have been deskmates for over three years. So, we have many, we have had many chances to talk with each other and she shared this unusual experience with me. Um… After, uh, her, her personal, her personal school life, uh, fail into deser, fail into disarray after her best friend transformed to another school because of China’s Gaokao policy. Uh… Students who intend to take the college entrance examination must take it in the location of their hometown. So, uh… after the school life without her made Lucy felt very lonely. She began to, she began to, um, feel, uh, felt directionless, uh, lost and scared. And she also, uh, was tired of people’s love around her. And she couldn’t raise any interest towards their conversation. Um… And she couldn’t find any hope towards the world and at several times, she wants to, uh, kill herself. And she, she realized that there must be something ha, uh, something wrong happened to her. Um… And, uh, she, she w, she pre, she pretended to, uh, smile towards everyone, though, uh, though she is suffering, suffering something wrong on the inside. And, um, she at the, at last, she decided to, uh, do some, find some methods to overcome it.

Luckily, she find the appropriate method. She took a phone call to her parents and they, they took it very seriously. At the same afternoon, they brought it to the hospital. And, uh, at the hospital, therapy and medication really help her with it. And, uh, following the suggestions of, of the doc, of doctors, uh, she doing, she doing exercise and, uh, doing some, uh, her favorite hobbies to, to, uh, to, distract herself when she, uh, when she suffer from the pain. And this is a, this is a best way to, to, uh, quiet the lot damage in her head. And, uh, in the {cough}, uh, and in the… and at last, she ha, uh, she came up with another good idea. She bought a mini notebook and marked down everything pleasant happened in her life and would, would check it several times through the day to remind her, remind her that, uh, life is a, life is a happy journey and she need to, uh, try her best to go through, uh, everyday.

Um… At that time, uh, it’s hardly convince, convetbale for me, to me to, uh, be that she, she suffer from this kind of depression because, uh, you k, she was optimistic, uh, towards everyone. So, at that time I realized perhaps everyone is, uh, suffer something other people they didn’t realize, la, such as depression. You, uh, depression is, um, she j, uh, she just can’t struggle, uh, it, with it silently because no one notice that. Yep, we need to pay more attention to the people around us.

Um, I, um, I learn many, I learn many from this experience because, um, because, um, if she, if she didn’t share this experience with me, I really, I, I never pay attention to her inside, inner, inner world. I didn’t realize that um, {lip smacking noise} a person, uh, such as, such as her, um, is also suffer from the psycho, psychological problem.