GLOBAL PERSPECTIVES 5th year

TEAM PROJECT
• Global Topic: HEALTH AND DISEASE
• Issue: Depression
DEPRESSION
Team members:
•Juana Buzzi
•Santos Viale

•Isabella Viggiano
•Lola Otzet

•Victoria de Salas
Our AIM
Raise awareness on what
depression really means
Reasons of our AIM

• We want:
- people to be more careful about the
use of the word
- talk about this disease in a serious
way and not joking
- how to help people
- avoid auto-diagnose
Series of questions to
ponder

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WHAT IS DEPRESSION?

• Depression is a medical illness

that affects negatively how you
feel, the way you think and how
you act.
Medical Symptoms
• Pathological sadness
• Not being able to enjoy
• Produces exaggerated tiredness
• Feelings of guilt
• Irritability
• Pessimism
• Death or suicide thoughts
• Loss of confidence
• Decreased concentration
• Suicide
How to diagnose?

• A person must have five symptoms of

the illness every day
• Talk to your health care provider.
Treatments
• Psychotherapy Correct distorted thoughts

• Pharmacological Antidepressants

ACHIEVED:
- Relief of symptoms
- Overcome Continue with antidepressants if necessary
What to do with someone with
depression?
• Avoid criticism
• Convey support
• Help them with their tasks
• Offer them company
• Have patience
• Ask them what they need
• Feed their self-esteem
 María Eugenia Ruíz: Social Reintegrator
Different Ana Ribera: Head of external production cmm
Perspectives of
Victims of Jesus Usero: Journalist
Depression Mariló Portalo: Management technician

Sonia Lerones: Writer

Helios Edgardo Quintas: Writer and trainer

Monica Grandes: Director of Communication

Rebeca Flores: Therapist


Sonia: it is a silent, invisible
disease, because it is
difficult for me to express
what I feel.
Marilo: negative
thoughts, "I can't, I'm not
capable, I'm useless"
Ana: for me it was not
knowing who I was, and
who I had been. It's wanting
WHAT IS
to die.
DEPRESSION?
Rebeca: It's like having a heavy
weight on your chest that Helios: is loneliness,
strangles you, it would be the
permanent nerves. It must be
equivalent of not having a battery,
we can only breathe, and we don't detected as soon as possible.
even want to do that.
Maria: it’s a marathon
Monica: it's a horror, you
through hell without ever
having run in my life and the
don't care about anything,
nothing makes you feel good
goal was to find myself.
Jesus: It's like being in a well from which
there is no way out. Totally empty, unable to
solve simple problems. Doing basic activities
Rebeca and Monica prefer to
is a lot. You can't self-diagnose, not because have to go through terminal
you are feeling down, you're depressed. The illnesses again than to have
true symptoms are having anxiety/panic
attacks, suffer from insomnia, cut almost all depression again.
your social ties
María and Ana: Anything
today is called
depression.
Can you be depressed without knowing?
Maria: yes. You know that something is not right, it is not going like before, but you say that this is not going to happen to you. I began to suspect that something was wrong
because I wasn't hungry.

Mariló: You can be living a depression for a long time and not know it, this was my case, I didn't know it until the age of 40, and it's something I've had since I was 12 years
old.

Monica: At first you don't identify it, you just ask yourself, "what's wrong with me? I'm not like that." It's hard to identify .

Helios: I thought I was lazy.

Ana: you think you have to be a certain type of person, or that many misfortunes have to happen to you, it's a disease that can happen to anyone. Nothing has to happen to you, sometimes
it's a trigger. Nobody wants to go to the psychiatrist, my family forced me, and I couldn't stop crying, you have to stop fighting with what's happening to you. I learned that when we tell
people about your condition, they don't know what to do and that affects the patient.

Rebeca: It's very scary, calling it that .

Sonia: I'm too young, I can't have it.

Jesus: A friend told me that I don't have the problems necessary to have depression, that it was all in my head, that I was imagining it, making it up. He suggested me to go to the doctor to confirm or
eliminate. I was lucky because my doctor diagnosed me quickly, I had insomnia and anxiety attacks. You need medical and psychological treatment; more and more people are suffering from it.
 • Rebeca and Ana: You don't say "fall" into depression or get into it, it's like saying
that the person wanted to do it or that they stumbled, and you don't know how to
get out, they say they get sick. I was with my partner with depression, and I had it
too.

• Jesus: series of events that accumulate, work, academic, sentimental, family

problems, which become too much.
How did you fall • Rebeca: I worked in London, and I had a lot of pressure, I was very busy. The

into depression? body knows more than one knows when to stop. It is not like you have it from
one day to another

• Monica: I was creative, I had everything to be happy, work, friends and family, I
had no problems, then everything made me sad. One normal day I had a panic
attack.

• Sonia: third year of my career, a new stage and all year I accumulated sadness and
problems that I didn't want to deal with. It is not only your environment, but also
how you handle your emotions. You need medication.

• Ana: worked with some physical risk. I had a panic attack, and insomnia, stress,
stop eating, every time you enter more.

• Mariló: I had a beautiful and happy life, I had irrational fears, anguish. I don't
know how I got depression.

• Helios: I couldn't talk to me, it was unbearable. They whispered questions and I
was very angry.
How does a depressed person
see him/herself?
• Jesus: I couldn't see myself; I was a shadow, I was defeated.

• Ana: I didn't know what it was to sleep, eat, because I liked being with
people. It was hard for me to love my daughters. The worst thing is that
you are unable to see yourself better. You don't have to offer much.

• Rebeca: my life was nothing, it was worthless, it was a burden for those
around me.

• Sonia: your life doesn't matter, and you believe it. You don't know why get
up.

• Maria: It was a burden, a nuisance.

• Helios: I felt I owed everyone

 • Jesus: therapy.

• Ana and Mariló: stop fighting against therapy and

medication.

• Ana: You don't have to propose much. There is no

need to normalize, so you minimize our problems.
What does a • Rebeca: You have to be there for someone, not do
person with things for them. Don't ask me “what the psychologist
told me”, “what do you need?” “Don't tell me to
depression need?smile.”
• Helios: If a person with depression starts talking to
you, you being a family member, friend or close, let
them continue and don't give them any advice,
because it may be the last time they tell you. In
addition, your comments can affect much more. Give
a hug if they ask for it, you are living an internal war.

• Sonia: At first, I didn't say anything. But then, my

family and friends were my support, they empathize a
lot. Don’t call them lazy or tell them to go to do
something.

• Maria: Don’t tell me that I was different before. I want

you to love me as I am and feel that you are with me
like this.
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