Articles
1. 20 Tips to Tame Your Stress
By Lynn Ponton, MD
In this article it’s saying how
some stress in your life is good because it keeps people motivated and on top
of things, but if you have too much stress it will lead people to turn to
drugs, alcohol, or eating too much food. There are many different ways to deal
with stress but some people don’t know all the different ways.
What it
comes down to is taking a small amount of time out of a busy day and just
sitting down and taking some deep breathes. Then go on to do something that
will just free your mind for a little bit whether that be a hobby, exercising,
or just writing out a list of things that need to get done. Dealing with stress
can be done as long as you don’t let it get too bad. Nothing is worse than
being paralyzed with stress.
Ponton, Lynn. "20 Tips to Tame Your Stress." 20
Tips to Tame Your Stress (2013): n. pag. Web.
2. Choosing the Best SSRI
By Regina Bussing, MD
This
article is about how antidepressants have gotten better throughout the years.
Now doctors are seeing their patient and deciding which medication will work
best for them because there are so many new choices. Back in the 1980’s there
wasn’t much to choose from so doctors had a very limited amount. Now however
they can talk to the patient see what they’re symptoms are and can match that
patient with the best antidepressant for them. If that one doesn’t work or the
side effects are too intense then they can just prescribe a different one.
In this
article a man who’s had depression ever since he got out of college in the 80’s
was prescribed an antidepressant that the side effects were too awful for him.
He decided to go off of them and just live with his depression, but a few years
later he went to the doctor again and they told him there are a whole bunch now
that are more effective than before and if he doesn’t like how this one makes
him feel then they can try a different kind.
Bussing, Regina. "Choosing the Best SSRI."
Choosing the Best SSRI (2006): n. pag. Psychcentral.com. John M. Grohol, Psy.D.
Web.
3. Study Questions Effectiveness of Therapy
for Suicidal Teenagers
Benedict Carey
This article is saying how
therapy along is not enough sometimes for suicidal teenagers. When they have a
mental illness mixed with an eating disorder or a behavior problem it caused a
lot of trouble for that person causing treatment to be very difficult.
Depression in teenagers is getting incredibly hard to treat. This article says
that one in 8 teenagers have persistent suicidal thoughts. About a third of
these teenagers had made plans and attempted those usually within a year of
having those thoughts.
Researchers
surveyed 6,483 adolescents from the ages of 13 to 18 and found that 9 percent
of male teenagers and 15 percent of female teenagers experienced some stretch
of having persistent suicidal thoughts. Among girls, 5 percent made suicide
plans and 6 percent made at least one attempt (some were unplanned). This is a
big issue now and it’s getting worse. Doctors are feeling confused by what to
do to help these teenagers.
Carey, Benedict. "Study
Questions Effectiveness of Therapy for Suicidal Teenagers." Study
Questions Effectiveness of Therapy for Suicidal Teenagers [New York] 09 June
2013: n. pag. Print.
4. Are You Hiding Depression Behind a Smile?
Lisa Mayoh
This article is about how
people in Australia and everywhere else are hiding their depression behind a
smile. They are pretending that everything is fine so people don’t notice but
once they’re alone they let it all out. When celebrities come out and say that
they suffer from a mental illness it tends to help other people say oh maybe I
can get help too and not try and cover this up anymore.
On
average, one in four Australian women and one in six Australian men will have
depression at some point in their lives. Many of these people are not getting
the treatment they could be causing them to suffer in silence more. Australians
are trying to help this problem as much as they can.
Mayoh, Lisa. "Are You Hiding Depression Behind a
Smile?" Nationwide News [Australia] 30 Oct. 2011: n. pag. Print.
5. Young and Carefree? Not So, Stress Survey
Shows
Sharon Jayson
People called “Millennials”
are more stressed than anyone else at this time. Millennials are young adults
from 18 years old to 33 years old. They are mainly stressed because of these
reasons: 76% work 73% money, 59% relationships, 56% family responsibilities,
and 55% the economy. Doctors are saying that because they have so much school
debt and can’t get a job after they graduate college their stress levels
increase immensely. These people though are trying to get rid of their stress
whether that be hanging out with family/friends, going out and exercising,
eating, listening to music, or in some cases turning to drugs and alcohol.
For
these people their stress is about 5.4 on a scale of 1-10. 1 is little to no
stress and 10 is a great deal of stress. They say that these people are growing
up in tough time were a lot of pressure was put on them to work hard and
achieve greatness so when they graduate from college and can’t get a job it
just goes against everything they were brought up to do and they feel like
failures.
Jayson, Sharon. "Young and Carefree? No So, Stress
Survey Shows." USA Today 07 Feb. 2013: n. pag. Print.
