‘Speak’ by Laurie Halse Anderson is an novel that explores a girl in high school who is raped at a party and she calls the cops and everyone hates her for it but she tells nobody about what happened which turns her to a very dark place and she ends up in a depressed state. Laurie Halse Anderson said herself "I've learned that Speak is not just a book about rape. Speak is a book about depression." Mental illnesses like depression are disorders that affect your behavior, mood and the way you think. Depression, anxiety and the bipolar disorder are some of the mental illnesses that people go through on a daily basis.
Depression is an mental illness it is classified as a mood disorder that causes continuous feeling of sadness. “