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The book Challenger Deep reminds me of another book series called Red Queen. In this series there is a boy named Maven, his mother messes up his head and makes him crazy. Both Maven and Caden feel alone and like they have no other choice to go along with what their mental illness was telling them to do.

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Both the book and poem have someone who cares for the person who is struggling. They both talk about death and how it is a sweat the offer is to them, and how they both turn it down.

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Struggling With Depression Yet Refusing To Give Up, The Pit, Teen Mental Illness Poem

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I have struggled with depression, as well as many other disorders, from a very young age. This poem depicts one of my frequent bouts of depression. The conclusion is not necessarily a happy ending. The relief experienced is but a brief oasis in a vast desert of a messed up brain.

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both the book and the poem talk about mental illness. they talk about how they feel alone and how they both get restless sleep. they talk about the battle they are constantly fighting and how they feel like they are a lone.

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Poem About Almost Losing Everything, Restless Nights

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I wrote this poem before I was put on anti-depressants. I didn't know how to deal with my anxiety or depression, so I wrote poems and songs. When I wrote this poem, I had lots of self hate and the feeling of worthlessness.

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I feel that the book and poem connect through the idea of drugs. They both talk about how they were not in control, and how they felt like they had no choice in a way.
“I was using," I tell her. "And God was my drug dealer."
She doesn't get it.
"Tripping on my own brain chemicals. The dope I was doing was already inside.”
― Neal Shusterman, Challenger Deep

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"It holds me tight, wrapped around my life & took my soul. Controlling, demanding, challenging, my every move, every thought, every thing. To it I belonged, no longer myself. Choices no longer my own. Personality faded, I was a person of my past. Darkness consumed, depression knocked, I let it in.

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the quote “I marveled that people could live so close - that you could literally be surrounded by thousands who were only inches away - and yet be completely isolated. I found it hard to imagine. It's not so hard for me to imagine anymore.”
― Neal Shusterman, Challenger Deep
reminded me of the book Beautifual Creastures. The girl in the book is alone because everyone picks on her, and the boy is trying to help her. Those characters interactions are a lot like Caaden feeling alone and his parents trying to help him get better.

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I think the theme of Challenger Deep is that mental illness is not what most people make it out to be. It's very hard on the person it is affecting and it is hard on their loved ones. It shouldn't be taken lightly and people with mental illnesses shouldn't have to fight the illness alone. Mental illnesses go much deeper than what most people believe it to, it affects the way a person acts, thinks and sees things around them. It's hard on everyone and people should know that.

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I think both the song and quote connect because they both are saying that they had to catch themselves from falling.

“You're supposed to put your coin in the slot and let it go. It spins round and round the big yellow funnel for like a minute, making a rhythmic whirring sound that gets tighter and tighter, more intense, more desperate as it spirals closer to the hole. It keeps spinning faster - all that kinetic energy forced down the neck of the funnel until it's blaring like an alarm - then it falls silent as it drops into the black abyss of the funnel. I'm that coin on its way down, screaming in the neck of the funnel, with nothing but my own kinetic energy and centrifugal force keeping me from dropping into darkness.”
― Neal Shusterman, Challenger Deep

"I won't take anyone down if I crawl tonight"[...]
And I went tumbling down tryna reach your high."

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both Halsey's and Challenger deep refer to the mind as something that is not good. I thought they fit together because they both express their thoughts or feelings about their minds.

“The only thing you have for measuring what's real is your mind . . . so what happens when your mind becomes a pathological liar?”
― Neal Shusterman, Challenger Deep

"I sat alone, in bed till the morning
I'm crying, "They're coming for me"
And I tried to hold these secrets inside me
My mind's like a deadly disease"-Halsey Control

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“Nothing awful is without its beautiful side.”
This quote is like the poem because it shows that not everything is pretty but it will always have it's pretty side
― Neal Shusterman, Challenger Deep
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Poem About Anxiety And Depression, Signed, Your Mind

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I have been struggling with depression, generalized anxiety disorder, and panic disorder for about a year and a half now. My poem is from the point of view of your mind, because with these mental illnesses, you're in constant battles with what's going on in your head.

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“Dead kids are put on pedestals, but mentally ill kids get hidden under the rug.”
― Neal Shusterman, Challenger Deep

This quote reminded me of the song Outcast by NF. He raps about not fitting the mold and standing out. Both are saying that they don't fit the mold that people have made for them but they both stand out for different reasons.

"i'll just be the outcast [...]

Yeah, I guess I don't fit the mold of rap"

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“They all think medicine should be magic, and they become mad at me when it's not.” - Neal Shusterman, Challenger Deep

This hits me hard because any time I say something is wrong people always seem to ask if I've taken any medicine. But medicine cant heal everything, it can't fix everything.