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Outline Mental Health
Elizabeth Angel
Mrs. Price
AP English
30 March 2015
Burning Issue: Outline
Question: How do teenagers develop the Mental Disorder and what could occur if teenage mental health continues?
Introduction:
Teenage Mental Disorder has become a major issue in the life of a teenager. Mental Disorder refers to a wide range of disorders that affect your mood, thinking, and behavior. It had all began during the 1950s with people dealing with depression, anorexia, anxiety, stress etc. Teenagers started facing difficult issues in their lives and began feeling depressed, stressed, and changes in behavior. It was soon enough when all of these factors became a mental disorder that leads teenagers to harmful decisions. Developing teenage mental disorder has increased throughout the years.

Background Information:
Teenage mental disorder is a wide range of disorders that affect a person’s mood, thinking, and behavior. Teenage mental disorder has been around for over 60 years with some of the factors of being stressed and depressed. Unfortunately depression and stressed aren’t the only factors of mental disorder; physical appearance is also a major factor of teenage mental disorder; physical appearance has increased the rate of teens with anorexia. The different factors of mental disorder have created so many affects on teenagers with many teens harming themselves and increasing the death rate. There are some resources to help teenagers but not one resource helps the causes of mental disorder.

Research:
Topic Sentence: There are many different causes to Teenage Mental Disorder.
Causes
Depression (Depression in Teens)
Genetics (Beautrais A.I Hs Toolkit)
Loneliness (Beautrais A.I)
Perception of self underweight/overweight (Beautrais A.I)
Stress and frustration tolerance (Beautrais A.I)
Getting Bullied (The Atlantic.com)

Causes of Stress:
Topic Sentence: Many People who seem to have a mental disorder because of stress are usually stressed about...

Adverse/ Stressful Life

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