Assignment 13- Elizabeth Salamanca

The change in the attitudes of mental illness in the past years has been incredible. Not only are people starting to realize and understand the issues that come with being mentally ill, but science is also finding explanations and medicines for these people. For example, studies have shown that cases of anxiety, stress, and depression are incredibly common for sane and rational people that are aware of their surroundings, especially high school students. Turns out that people who are delusional, insane, or have amnesia are actually better off than us. So what can be done about this? Is there any way to be even vaguely conscious about the world around us without becoming an empty shell of the optimistic child we all once were? The only way to be completely free of the entanglements that come with being in the know is apathy. If nobody cares, then what is there to get upset about?