2. Depression may have an
evolutionary purpose. It
Maintains hierarchy by
discouraging members of a
society From changing their
Existing situations where to do
so might be futile or dangerous.
3.
Women are twice as
likely to experience
depression than men,
regardless of
socioeconomic
status, race, and age
after adolescence.
4. Pills are the
most common There are selective
treatment serotonin re-uptake
option. inhibitors (SSRIs),
selective
norepinephrine re-
uptake inhibitors
(SNRIs), monoamine
oxidase inhibitors
(MAOIs) and
tricyclic (TCAs)
antidepressants.
5.
6. Deep brain
stimulation was
first used to treat
These are x-rays of
the brain and show the
Parkinson's Disease.
location of the
implanted electrodes.
It is now being used
to treat treatment-
resistant depression.
7. Light therapy
involves sitting in
front of a box that
produces
fluorescent light
(10,000 lux) for
half an hour every
day. This has been
used to treat SAD.
9. “depression could not but be inherent to a
rapidly changing society which demanded
performance and enterprise at all cost despite
the fact that technology and codes of love
were both metamorphosing at an exceptional
rate. In such a world, being depressed is a way
of going underground, holding oneself quiescent,
refusing performance, while desires are
rekindled…if drugs are less toxic and have an
effect the real work, Fedida suggests, is that of
understanding, where you can get to know
yourself better so as to be able to confront
the frontal shocks of our times” (Appignanesi
537).
