Nonfiction Book

1.                   A summary of your text (or chapters/articles you read from your text). This should be at least 3-5 solid paragraphs.

My nonfiction book is about depression. In the book it describes what can make you depressed, how people handle their depression, and how to treat it. Many people suffer from depression but they don’t even know it. They think that it is just normal to feel that way. They believe that it is just part of aging and that you’ll “snap out of it”. People don’t like to get help because they think that it’s a weakness, people won’t understand, or they will call them lazy and tell them to just get over it.

Things that can make people depressed could be a chemical inbalance in your brain, or something traumatic that has happened in your life such as a close person dying. There are many different reasons for depression and doctors still aren’t quite sure all the different causes of depression. Sometimes it just slowly creeps up on you, you try to ignore it and blow it off as you just being sad or something but that’s probably the worst thing you could do. People need to know that this is a disease and it can be controlled if you get help. No one has to suffer through this just because other people around them don’t understand this disease.

Everyone is different when it comes to handling their depression. Everyone is different in general. Some people turn to God when the going gets tough and others just try and get through it the best they can on their own. The best thing people can do if they think that their depressed is go and see a doctor. They can then tell you you need antidepressants, to talk to a therapist, or both. Most of the time it will probably be both. There is another thing such as sending shock waved through your brain to make it “work the right way” some people believe in this technique and some don’t either way if someone is desperate and looking for anything they will try anything.

Depression can never really be “treated”. It can be helped and contained but it might never really go away. In my book I read there were people who had it for almost 40 years. 10 of which went undiagnosed. Depression hits hard and affects everyone differently according to my nonfiction book.

2.                   At least 3 key passages from your text (cited by page number).

“Form of mental illness I have is called Bipolar 2, which means I’m more likely to suffer from depression than from Mania, it’s frenzied opposite” Pg. 21.

 

“I began to have certain experiences that were very strange and puzzling to me. For example, one day, I was talking to someone at work about close colleague of mine and I just burst into tears. I remember thinking how odd that was. It wasn’t the sort of behavior that was characteristic of me at all” Pg. 31.

 

“I spend about a week in the hospital, where I sank into a kind of oblivion while my doctor experimented with various antidepressant drugs. He explained that with mental illness, you can’t just draw a blood sample and say, “Ah-ha! You need this, or you need that” Pg. 37.

 

3.                   At least 5 thought-provoking questions that allow readers of your page to think about the topic you have chosen in relation to your nonfiction book and the world around us.    

1.       What is depression to you?

2.       Have you ever experienced it yourself?

3.       Has anyone close to you been diagnosed with any kind of depression?

4.       In your opinion, is depression something you can just “snap out of” or is it something serious like a disease?

5.       How do you think people can overcome depression?                                                                                                                                                                 

4.                   A citation for your nonfiction book. Use Easybib.com if necessary.

Willis, Laurie. Depression. Detroit: Gale Group, 2008. Print.

 

5.            Include a picture(s) (one that you created or composed) on the page that relates to the book you have chosen.

 

6.       Finally, include a section on how this particular book has guided or fits in with the issue you have chosen to work with for this project.

This book fits in with my issue because it is all about me issue. It has people’s personal stories of how they dealt with their depression, how they got diagnosed, and how they got treatment. It has a wide variety of the different types of depression out there and shows many examples.