Mid Research Review

Depression affects everyone at some point in their lives. Whether it is one of their family members, friends, or even them, it’s there and people need to know the facts on depression. They don’t understand that it is a disease and you can’t just “snap out of it”. Being depressed isn’t just feeling sad for a few days; it’s a chemical in balance in your brain that is preventing serotonin to move about.  My research for this project has been difficult and very interesting.

                There are many different types of depression and researching just “depression” into Google brings out hundreds of different websites, people’s personal blogs, books, and so much more. In other words my topic was very broad. I didn’t really know what I was getting into until I was already in the middle of it all. Given that though I’ve collected a lot of information and narrowing it down has been the hardest part. I think that my information is kind of broad I could definitely narrow it down some more it’s just difficult because there are so many different types of depression.  The information I have collected so far is all on the blog I created for this project. I found out that depression can run in your family, treating depression can be very difficult and there is no known cure for it, suicide attempts are sad but a common issue with depression, and that people cope with their depression in many different ways. Those are the key items that I’ve learned while researching this.

                All of the different articles, movies, and books that I’ve read fit together because they are all regular people talking about their battle with their depression. They have been dealing with this for years now and are trying to help others by talking about it and informing people about what depression is. I started out this project just trying to research depression but after reading all of these people’s stories and seeing that a lot of people struggle with this disease I thought a better fit was trying to inform the people of this disease so maybe then it won’t be such a taboo subject. Mental illness is out there and people need to be more open about it and not treat it like you’re insane or like it’s a joke.

                In the future I believe that people will be more informed on mental illness and it won’t be such an uncomfortable subject for people. I mean yeah it is scary but that doesn’t mean you can just bash it and pretend that it’s nothing. Denial doesn’t get people very far in life and denying depression could potentially be the worst thing you could ever do to yourself. I think for me I need to read more people’s stories to see who they were and what happened to them. Depression affects anyone doesn’t matter their age, race, or gender. At some point someone you know or even yourself will experience depression.

                In this research project I learned a lot that I didn’t know before. I didn’t know that there were so many different types of depression.  I didn’t know that it not curable it’s just treatable, but for some people the treatments can be very different. I think that by doing this project I can help inform those who know nothing about this disease and hopefully help a little by opening the eyes of those who don’t understand this. That’s what I hope people will get out of my project.