Essays on Depression

This reaction paper will cover readings from Chapter Five in our textbook titled, “Children Affected by War and Conflict.” It will also include points made from an article in the Journal of Social Science and Medicine. Children are susceptible to physical or emotional attack or…

Among the most common of mental health disorders is depression, followed by alcohol and drug abuse. Based on previous epidemiological studies, we know that depression is two to three times more likely to affect women compared to men (Oltmanns & Emery, 2018, p. 138). Results…

Music is a powerful tool. It is a pan-cultural language that predates all other forms of communication. It is a mnemonic device that can trigger a cascade of memories that may have otherwise been lost. It is a catalyst for inducing intense, peak emotional states…

Social media is a very common and significant way of networking with people, between those from local to worldwide distances. However, what effect can this have? I am going to be exploring the effects of social media and the link that it has to depression…

The purpose of this analysis is to examine three different athletes from three different generations that are actively communicating and promoting mental health and depression awareness. By examining the mental health and depression awareness initiatives of these athletes, this analysis shows that depression and mental…

Depression resembles an octopus; it achieves its arms into such huge numbers of parts of life. The range of wretchedness keeps running from drawn out, brief, gentle sentiments of being unwell and advances to sentiments of misery, to more extreme real sorrow, with genuine industrious,…

The way we communicate, socialize, and create friendships has been strikingly changed by social media. While living in a digital world has its advantages, there are also some risks that goes along with it. Today’s youth tend to miss out on critical social skills development…

The topic I chose for this paper is depression. I chose depression because it is an illness that affects many people today, including myself. It is an important theme in Psychology, and we covered mental illnesses like Schizophrenia before this. Depression is such a huge…

Introduction to Mental Health What exactly is mental health and how do we define it? World Health Organisation (2014) stated that: Mental health is not just the lack of mental disorders. It is a state of well-being in which every person recognizes their own potential,…

Depression is now becoming more prevalent in today’s society as a study has shown that over 18,000 Malaysians have been diagnosed with depression in 2017 based on statistic obtained through mental health screening programs conducted on 273,203 individuals at health and community clinics in 2017…