Mental Health The Secret Life of Bees by Alexia Daul https://padlet.com/daula0180/tam2jzh05rdr Made with ♥ en-us 2020-03-02 15:51:25 UTC 2025-10-23 11:52:37 UTC hello@padlet.com “Depression profoundly impairs the ability to function in everyday situations by affecting moods, thoughts, behaviors, and physical well-being” (Bellenir 107). allarc0289 https://padlet.com/daula0180/tam2jzh05rdr/wish/453048608 In the novel, anytime May hears anything negative, she begins to sing and worry. This effects her daily life because she isn’t able to carry on normal activities when this occurs. It often ends with her needing to go to her wall to calm down. ]]> 2020-03-02 16:15:05 UTC https://padlet.com/daula0180/tam2jzh05rdr/wish/453048608 “Guilt plagues many suicide survivors. They ask themselves how they missed the warning signs. Or they believe that if they had spent more time with the victim, they could have prevented the suicide” (Goldsmith 10). daula0180 https://padlet.com/daula0180/tam2jzh05rdr/wish/453049610 2020-03-02 16:16:21 UTC https://padlet.com/daula0180/tam2jzh05rdr/wish/453049610 “Studies of identical twins confirm that depression and genes are related, finding that if one twin of an identical pair suffers from depression, the other has a 70 percent chance of developing the disease” (Bellenir 110). allarc0289 https://padlet.com/daula0180/tam2jzh05rdr/wish/453049971 In the novel, both April and May suffer from depression that eventually leads to both committing suicide. Although the depression takes place at different times, it is not a coincidence because it is proven that if one twin has depression, the other has a high chance of also developing depression. ]]> 2020-03-02 16:16:51 UTC https://padlet.com/daula0180/tam2jzh05rdr/wish/453049971 “‘I’m sorry,’ he said. ‘It was my fault if I’d turned in the one who threw the bottle, I wouldn’t have gotten arrested and non of this would have happened’” (Kidd 204). daula0180 https://padlet.com/daula0180/tam2jzh05rdr/wish/453050768 2020-03-02 16:17:55 UTC https://padlet.com/daula0180/tam2jzh05rdr/wish/453050768 “Despite this avoidant behavior, many people with PTSD repeatedly re-experience the ordeal in the form of flashback episodes, memories, nightmares of frightening thoughts, especially when they are exposed to events or objects reminiscent of the trauma” (Bellenir 215). allarc0289 https://padlet.com/daula0180/tam2jzh05rdr/wish/453051014 Lily constantly is reimagining the day of her mother’s death and how it occurred. Although she was super young, she remembers the image vividly due to the amount of trauma that is caused. ]]> 2020-03-02 16:18:15 UTC https://padlet.com/daula0180/tam2jzh05rdr/wish/453051014 “By the time she was thirteen, she was having terrible depressions, and of course the whole time, whatever she was feeling, May was feeling” (Kidd 97, Ch. 5) daula0180 https://padlet.com/daula0180/tam2jzh05rdr/wish/453204406 2020-03-02 19:27:19 UTC https://padlet.com/daula0180/tam2jzh05rdr/wish/453204406 “Symptoms of PTSD also include emotional numbness and sleep disturbances (including insomnia), depresssion, and irritability or outbursts of anger” (Bellenir 215). allarc0289 https://padlet.com/daula0180/tam2jzh05rdr/wish/453208366 2020-03-02 19:32:06 UTC https://padlet.com/daula0180/tam2jzh05rdr/wish/453208366 “If the symptoms get worse, last for months or even years, and interfere with your day-to-day functioning, you may have PTSD.” daula0180 https://padlet.com/daula0180/tam2jzh05rdr/wish/453208866 Lily has many symptoms of PTSD that last for many years, and they do not go away after a couple of weeks. It is assumed that Lily suffers from PTSD after years of T. Ray’s abuse towards her. ]]> 2020-03-02 19:32:42 UTC https://padlet.com/daula0180/tam2jzh05rdr/wish/453208866 “Obsessive Complusive behavior is an anxiety disorder in which you are frequently or constantly troubled by ideas or images that stick in your mind and that you can’t ignore (obsessions)” (Bellenir 219) allarc0289 https://padlet.com/daula0180/tam2jzh05rdr/wish/453210172 2020-03-02 19:34:24 UTC https://padlet.com/daula0180/tam2jzh05rdr/wish/453210172 “People with OCD often have depression or symptoms associated with depression. These include guilt, low self-esteem, anxiety, or extreme fatigue” (Bellenir 219). allarc0289 https://padlet.com/daula0180/tam2jzh05rdr/wish/453211311 Throughout the novel, Lily constantly feels guilt for killing her mother. This gets in the way because she constantly longs for her mother to be with her, but feels as if it is her fault which leads Lily into a depressive state. ]]> 2020-03-02 19:35:46 UTC https://padlet.com/daula0180/tam2jzh05rdr/wish/453211311 “I picked up one of the honey jars and hurled it as hard as I could. It missed black Mary’s head by inches and smashed against the back wall” (Kidd 259, Ch. 13). daula0180 https://padlet.com/daula0180/tam2jzh05rdr/wish/453211524 2020-03-02 19:36:02 UTC https://padlet.com/daula0180/tam2jzh05rdr/wish/453211524 “The gun shining like a toy in her hand, how he snatched it away and waved it around. The gun on the floor. Bending to pick it up. The noise that exploded around us” (Kidd 8, Ch. 1). daula0180 https://padlet.com/daula0180/tam2jzh05rdr/wish/453213306 At the beginning of the novel, Lily has a flashback to when her mother died. This is one of the many times she has flashbacks about her mother’s death and the traumatic experience she encountered. ]]> 2020-03-02 19:38:21 UTC https://padlet.com/daula0180/tam2jzh05rdr/wish/453213306 “Yes she’s been depressed lately. Well, actually, she was depressed on and off” (Kidd 195, Ch. 10). allarc0289 https://padlet.com/daula0180/tam2jzh05rdr/wish/453214997 2020-03-02 19:40:28 UTC https://padlet.com/daula0180/tam2jzh05rdr/wish/453214997 “I imagined how May had rolled the rock from the bank out into the river, then lay down, pulling it on top of her. She had held it tight, like a baby, and waited for he lungs to fill” (Kidd 193, Ch. 10). daula0180 https://padlet.com/daula0180/tam2jzh05rdr/wish/453216612 2020-03-02 19:42:43 UTC https://padlet.com/daula0180/tam2jzh05rdr/wish/453216612 “Compulsions are the second part of obsessive compulsive disorder. These are repetitive behaviors or thoughts that a person uses with the intention of neutralizing, counteracting, or making their obsessions go away” allarc0289 https://padlet.com/daula0180/tam2jzh05rdr/wish/453224445 2020-03-02 19:54:06 UTC https://padlet.com/daula0180/tam2jzh05rdr/wish/453224445 “And then, when April was fifteen, she took our father’s shotgun and killed herself” (Kidd 97, Ch. 5). daula0180 https://padlet.com/daula0180/tam2jzh05rdr/wish/453226753 2020-03-02 19:57:53 UTC https://padlet.com/daula0180/tam2jzh05rdr/wish/453226753 “Shock usually immediately follows the suicide. Shock is a psychological and physical response to an extremely traumatic event” (Goldsmith 9). daula0180 https://padlet.com/daula0180/tam2jzh05rdr/wish/453228384 When the Boatwright sisters found May they couldn’t believe that she was actually gone. They sat their quiet just taking in everything. They didn’t believe that she had actually committed suicide. ]]> 2020-03-02 20:00:42 UTC https://padlet.com/daula0180/tam2jzh05rdr/wish/453228384 allarc0289 https://padlet.com/daula0180/tam2jzh05rdr/wish/453229410 https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/326769 ]]> 2020-03-02 20:02:16 UTC https://padlet.com/daula0180/tam2jzh05rdr/wish/453229410 “ ‘We sit with her so we can tell her good-bye. It’s called a vigil. Sometimes people have a hard time letting death sink in, they can’t say good-bye. A vigil helps us do that ’ ”(Kidd 200). allarc0289 https://padlet.com/daula0180/tam2jzh05rdr/wish/453354762 2020-03-03 01:01:57 UTC https://padlet.com/daula0180/tam2jzh05rdr/wish/453354762 “I started thinking maybe I should find out what I could about my mother, before T. Ray or the police came for us. But where to start? I couldn’t just pull out the black Mary picture and show it to August without the truth wrecking everything, and she would decide—might decide, would decide, I couldn’t say—that she was obliged to call T. Ray to come get me. And if she knew that Rosaleen was a true fugitive, wouldn’t she have to call the police?” (Kidd 101). allarc0289 https://padlet.com/daula0180/tam2jzh05rdr/wish/453358063 Lily has constant reoccurring thoughts about her mother or T.Ray coming to get her. She is always troubled with the idea of having to come clean with August, however the thought of her mother is always in her head. She copes with the obsession of her mother by holding on to old belongings of her mother.]]> 2020-03-03 01:11:53 UTC https://padlet.com/daula0180/tam2jzh05rdr/wish/453358063 Individuals who “live with illness and pain, which may make them feel as if they are a burden to others” are at a greater risk of suicide (Goldsmith 24-25). daula0180 https://padlet.com/daula0180/tam2jzh05rdr/wish/453369283 May had developed depression around the time that April committed suicide. May had lived with the pain of depression for so long that she gave up. She felt as if her depression was a burden on others because her sisters were constantly taking care of her, however that was not the case. ]]> 2020-03-03 01:41:22 UTC https://padlet.com/daula0180/tam2jzh05rdr/wish/453369283 “However, when one of these factors persists for a long period of time or reaches an unbearable level, people may begin to wrestle with thoughts of suicide” (Goldsmith 25). daula0180 https://padlet.com/daula0180/tam2jzh05rdr/wish/453370210 May’s depression has occurred for so long and it left her feeling hopeless. When she couldn’t take it anymore she decided to commit suicide. It was described in her letter that she would be happier with April and the rest of her family. ]]> 2020-03-03 01:43:45 UTC https://padlet.com/daula0180/tam2jzh05rdr/wish/453370210 daula0180 https://padlet.com/daula0180/tam2jzh05rdr/wish/453383281 https://www.helpguide.org/articles/anxiety/obssessive-compulsive-disorder-ocd.htm]]> 2020-03-03 02:20:54 UTC https://padlet.com/daula0180/tam2jzh05rdr/wish/453383281 daula0180 https://padlet.com/daula0180/tam2jzh05rdr/wish/453384816 https://www.verywellmind.com/an-overview-of-ptsd-2797638]]> 2020-03-03 02:24:55 UTC https://padlet.com/daula0180/tam2jzh05rdr/wish/453384816 allarc0289 https://padlet.com/daula0180/tam2jzh05rdr/wish/454434150 https://www.uab.edu/news/youcanuse/item/9729-suicide-how-you-can-help-yourself-and-others-in-need]]> 2020-03-04 16:07:35 UTC https://padlet.com/daula0180/tam2jzh05rdr/wish/454434150 daula0180 https://padlet.com/daula0180/tam2jzh05rdr/wish/454477001 2020-03-04 16:53:33 UTC https://padlet.com/daula0180/tam2jzh05rdr/wish/454477001 #KNOWTHESIGNS daula0180 https://padlet.com/daula0180/tam2jzh05rdr/wish/455392362 2020-03-05 20:48:05 UTC https://padlet.com/daula0180/tam2jzh05rdr/wish/455392362 #LETTINGGO daula0180 https://padlet.com/daula0180/tam2jzh05rdr/wish/455459195 2020-03-05 23:27:13 UTC https://padlet.com/daula0180/tam2jzh05rdr/wish/455459195 #LONGTERM daula0180 https://padlet.com/daula0180/tam2jzh05rdr/wish/455463440 2020-03-05 23:41:22 UTC https://padlet.com/daula0180/tam2jzh05rdr/wish/455463440 #NOTYOURFAULT daula0180 https://padlet.com/daula0180/tam2jzh05rdr/wish/455466037 2020-03-05 23:49:26 UTC https://padlet.com/daula0180/tam2jzh05rdr/wish/455466037 #DEPRESSIONISNOTAJOKE allarc0289 https://padlet.com/daula0180/tam2jzh05rdr/wish/455525137 2020-03-06 02:46:06 UTC https://padlet.com/daula0180/tam2jzh05rdr/wish/455525137