This website is dedicated to viewing depression in many different ways. I am going to look at depression through biological/ecological, ethnological, experimental, critical, and applied lenses. Depression is a subjective illness; it can differ person to person. The clinical definition of depression is "a mood disorder in which feelings of sadness, loss, anger, or frustration interfere with everyday life for a longer period of time." (www.nlm.nih.gov) I picked the depression as my illness to study because it is often misdiagnosed or left untreated. This illness is also important to me personally, my friend Nikki has been diagnosed with this disorder a few years ago. Her story can be found on the experimental page and how she lives her daily life struggling with this illness. It is important to consider non-medical factors when studying this illness because it is often something non-medical that is the cause of it, which triggers the beginnings of depression. An anthropologist might study this differently than a medical doctor, outside medical reasons. They might look at culture and why depression in more frequent in the United States than in another area. They would look at how it is treated in other areas and see if they can find the determining factor that correlates with depression.
Add more about what depression is and how it is dealt with in the US...
Add more about what depression is and how it is dealt with in the US...