Psychotherapy and ____ are often the first treatments people get for depression.
What is Medication or Anti-Depressants?
100
This city has the #1 rate of Seasonal Affective Disorder.
What is Seattle?
100
This actress famously garnered attention and criticism for publicly battling Postpartum Depression.
Who is Brooke Shields?
100
This stigma is a common factor that prevents many Latinos from admitting that they are depressed and take treatment.
What is being 'crazy' or 'weak'?
100
This type of depression is much more serious than the "baby blues" that many women experience after giving birth.
What is postpartum depression?
200
______ are medical doctors who have completed specialized training in mental disorders. By seeing this specialist, a depressed person can safely be treated.
What is a Psychiatrist?
200
This symptom is major depression's main identifier in teenagers.
What is thoughts of suicide?
200
This new proposed phenomenon is defined as depression that develops when teens spend a great deal of time on social media websites and then begin to exhibit signs of depression.
What is "social media depression"?
200
This religion does not condemn depression but believes if you are a true believer, "Allah will take away [your] sorrow and grief, and give [you] in their stead joy"
What is Islam?
200
Sometimes called manic-depressive illness, this disorder causes cycling mood swings ranging from the lows of depression to the highs of mania and is not as common as major depression.
What is bipolar disorder?
300
According to the World Health Organization, fewer than __% of depressed people DON'T have access to treatment.
What is 25%?
300
This symptom of depression is most prominent in teenagers.
What is sad or empty?
300
According to this organization, depression is estimated to be the second leading cause of death by the year 2020.
What is the World Health Organization?
300
Women in this culture mainly do not believe that depression can affect them and that is why they prefer not to have health care professionals treat them for depression.
What is Nigeria?
300
This depressive disorder is disabling and prevents a person from functioning normally. A person may experience this kind of depression once in a lifetime, but more often will experience multiple episodes.
What is major depression?
400
This object was invented in the late 1800's to treat women with "hysteria", an often misdiagnosed form of depression.
What is The Vibrator?
400
This symptom decreases pleasure in activities.
What is decreased interest?
400
Sarafem, a popular treatment for Pre-menstrual Dysphoric Disorder, is actually identical to this socially stigmatized depression medication.
What is Prozac?
400
This religion asks you to be open about your depression because as their founder once said, "We are shaped by our thoughts; we become what we think. When the mind is pure, joy follows like a shadow that never leaves."
What is Buddhism?
400
This depressive disorder is characterized by long term (over 2 years) of symptoms that may not be severe enough to disable a person, but can prevent feeling well or functioning normally.
What is dysthymic disorder or dysthymia?
500
This treatment option for severely clinically depressed patients stimulates the vagus nerve to alleviate depression.
What is electroconvulsive therapy?
500
This percentage of middle aged men are depressed.
What is 40%?
500
This theory is highly propagated in the media despite lack of sufficient medical evidence to link it to ALL forms of depression.
What is the Chemical Imbalance Theory?
500
This is a Turkish take on depression, meaning "I've got shattered nerves."
What is bozulmasi?
500
Characterized by having symptoms for 2 weeks or longer that do not meet the criteria of major depression. Without treatment, people with this depression are at high risk for developing major depressive disorder.