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Question 1: How was your topic affected by 9/11?

 Before 9/11, the children having depression was unheard of. After 9/11, cases of Depression in children and adolescents were reported. Before this time, it was thought that traumatic events didn’t have a profound effect, or cause depression, in children because they were too young to understand the full impact of what had happened. After 9/11, a study was conducted with 400 children from the ages 12-20 and 12% of them had depression related to 9/11.

Question 2: Explain the scope (extent), intensity (depth), and nature of the affect of 9/11 on you topic. 61,000 of the 409,000 in the disaster area experienced “probable” PTSD within six years of 9/11. 1 in every 5 of those people most likely were diagnosed with depression. Dr. Margaret Dessau lived 8 blocks away and heard the sound of the attack. She now has PTSD and the early signs of depression.

Question 3: How has debate on this issue made our country stronger?

“There is increasing evidence that kids know what is going on if they are directly exposed and see something like planes crashing into the [World Trade Center] towers," says child psychologist Claude Chemtob of New York University, lead author of one of several new papers on children and disaster.(Hamilton) The fact that 9/11 has lead to the discovery of depression in children hasn’t made us stronger, just more aware of the mental stability of children, the future leaders of America.

Hamilton, Anita. "After Diaster, kids suffer Post-tramatic stress too." Editorial. //www.time.com//. N.p., 21 July 2010. Web. 8 Sept. 2011. .

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 * Evidence that clearly supports the topic sentence
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