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Reasons of Depression
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XQAGemN88ms Going all the way back to ancient times, this video explains different beliefs scientists and scholars had as to why society struggled with depression. Along with those ideas, it also explains the different treatments and how they changed over centuries. -
Melancholia to Depression
The research I gathered from this was about the great decrease of depression in 1955. Many of the topics covered in this article were referring to famous scientists and their ideas or individuals who suffered from depression. Doctors began to tell their patients they were melancholia instead of depressed. Because through research they realized these were two very different things. During this time period, depression affected less than one percent of America. -
More Understanding about Depression for Women
Many doctors and specialists linked many mental illnesses in the same category and didn’t understand the great difference in all the different illnesses. Another idea brought up was the treatment women received in mental hospitals. When a women was diagnosed with mental illness of any sort, she would be locked up in an institute. Doctors realized years after of this happening, depressed women aren't always a danger to society and locking them up didn't help their recovery. -
Science comes into Play
After realizing depression is different from other mental illnesses, scientists began researching depression more to find a cure to help people. Pathologists performed autopsies and found that depressed people had low serotonin levels and created a drug called Prozac to help bring the levels up. Anti depressants are now the third most used drug. -
Suicide and Depression are Closely Linked
The point of this article was speaking about the importance and how depression can usually lead to suicide. America is constantly on the go, and the generations leading up to today aren’t learning how to properly take care of themselves. The third leading cause of death in ages 10 to 24 is suicide and from that 90 percent of suicidal people are depressed. -
Why is America so Stressed and Depressed
“I found that teens in the 2010s (compared to the mid-1980s) were 38 percent more likely to have trouble remembering, 74 percent more likely to have trouble sleeping and twice as likely to have seen a professional for mental health issues." This article spoke about we might just be more open about breaking the stigma for mental illness and opening up. Also, America is a constantly running country and we never give time to better our mental health for we are always pushing. -
America is more Depressed than Ever Before
Along with several other articles, this one also spoke about why today America is so depressed. They believe that possibly the reason it seems we are so much more depressed today than even before could be the fact we just are breaking the stigma and not keeping quiet about our mental illnesses. Also, life has never been more rich or stimulating, yet there are similarly unprecedented rates of melancholy and anxiety. -
Science and History of Depression
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ttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GOK1tKFFIQI This article was written about the society America has become and whether or not we are full of “pill happy” Americans. A leading cause to the progression towards a cure for depression came from research from scientists. They have found that certain chemicals inside your brain increase levels which result in depression or not. -
Why are Girls More Depressed than Guys
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v45vILmSsZM The point of this article was bringing to view the point it seems teen girls are significantly more depressed than teenage guys. They believe that because girls experience puberty before guys is a huge factor. Girls also seem to experience more peer pressure and begin to question their self worth far before guys do. "A mental illness has swept the planet," wrote Gilles Ivain -
Depression does not Spike in the Winter
The point of this article was breaking the stigma of depression peaking in the wintertime, and instead showing the two peaks are in the spring and fall. Allergens also seem to be a huge cause in the springtime causing more people (especially women) to experience suicidal thoughts and actions. This could be new reasonings as to why individuals are more depressed these days and America seems to be pill happy.
