The purpose of this work is to analyse, through the literature, contemporary adolescents and young people, who are increasingly being diagnosed with a variety of mental illnesses, especially in this study - depression. My interest in the subject arose from the way it has been discussed and questioned in academic works and how young people are self-diagnosing themselves, causing not only damage to their health, but to an entire society that lives on the fringes of behaviour that visibly deviates from the ethics and morals stipulated by various social and psychological bodies.