Rational Argument

     For the rational argument assignment, I chose to write about depression. My paper is about depression not being as recognized or respected as physical issues simply because it is not clearly visible. I chose this for a few different reasons. For starters, I personally suffer from depression and I felt that I could definitely connect to this topic. It has been over 3 years now since I developed depression, and during that time I have learned and experienced a lot related to the matter. For example, kids are briefly taught about depression in health classes at school, but at least my school did not go into much depth with the topic. Since we were covering other materials, we only had time to talk about extreme cases of depression. When I developed depression not long after, it was nothing like what we had learned. In fact, it was nothing like anything I had ever been taught about it in my life. I noticed a lot of things once I did develop it, though. One of those things was the fact that so many people will take one glance and nothing looks wrong with you on the outside, so they will assume everything is fine. A lot of teachers in my high school never wanted kids using the mental health days, and one of my teachers even went so far as to make it harder on kids who took them. I felt like all the kids needed those from time to time, especially the kids suffering from depression. I started to think about all the different scenarios in which I have noticed my depression or someone else's get overlooked or ignored simply because it is not visible. That is why I decided to write my paper on that very problem.