TEEN DEPRESSION

LEARNING LAUNCH

Teen depression is a serious mental health problem that causes a persistent feeling of

sadness and loss of interest in activities. It affects how a teenager thinks, feels and

behaves, and it can cause emotional, functional and physical problems. Issues such as

peer pressure, academic expectations and changing bodies can bring a lot of ups and

downs for teenagers. This health problem can sometimes urge the teenager to give up on

their lives. Most of the times teen depression can be cured with willpower. Some of them,

depression symptoms ease with treatment such as medication and psychological

counseling.

After going through all the design thinking tools, Learning Launch is the tool that is selected

for solving this problem. Learning Launch is experimenting a set of solutions for the problem

in order to find which one works out the best.

For the first experiment,we organized a workshop for those suffering from teen

depression.This workshop was filled with activities,games and fun interactions in order to

distract them for a defined time period.This workshop was aimed to help them realize their

special skills and abilities and divert their point of interest and focus to various other aspects

of life.

For the second experiment, we conducted a talk for them.This talk was more of a friendly

interaction with each one of them and getting to know them deeply.The talk focused on

prioritizing issues and ignoring certain issues that do not require any amount of attention

and stress.This was done in order to convey the concept of prioritizing.

By applying the tool of learning launch,we came up with two solutions that could be worked

upon in order to get results.After the first experiment,we realized that some of them made a

good use of the workshop and started to incorporate certain activities into their lifestyle in

order to make them feel better.While some of them did not get any benefits out of the

workshop as they went back to thinking about their issues , just as they were before.

The second experiment had a much deeper effect on them as they were enlightened with a

concept that they never considered thinking about earlier.

Many more solutions would be generated in the future by keeping in mind about the insight

gained after the two experiments and the progress made,after which we would come a step

ahead to reach the ideal solution.

