Depression and Globalization The Politics of Mental Health in the 21st Century

Walker, C. (2008)

This book covers a lot of research and professional knowledge about depression. Every patient with depression will have a different experience of suffering from depression through their own experience, the experience of close people or other sources. We may have experienced depression in the context of academic or voluntary departments, or may be unfamiliar with depression. The first chapter of this book outlines the meaning of depression in different groups of people.

This book explains the situation when suffering from depression, whether as a patient, as a family member or friend, whether as an adult or a child, and how mental health science and medical institutions define these described diseases and consequences. It can also be seen from this that depression is actually a disease that many people may have or have suffered.

This book has explained the relationship between depression and society, and the mental health sciences and the depression industry, it also mentions the future of depression. This book has a lot of professional knowledge about depression, which can make people look at and understand depression more objectively. For example, feeling depressed is not the same as depression, it will have at least one of the symptoms of depression must be low mood or loss of interest or pleasure. Depression is similar to the importance of anhedonia or the lack of ability to feel happy. People with depression will have a pure sense of emptiness and are not interested in anything and pursuits they have previously participated in.

The opposite of depression is not necessarily happiness, but full of vitality, willing to experience a full range of emotions, including happiness, excitement and sadness, and this unpleasant emotional flatness may be a disease, and low mood is not an emotion. Sadness, disappointment and fear are emotions. Severe depression is a disease, and this perception between sensations is lost, so it is difficult to understand without personal experience. In fact, when we only look at things from a certain angle, it is easy to have blind spots, and this book analyzes depression from different angles, as well as the micro and macro concepts, which is very comprehensive.

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Walker, C., 2008. Depression And Globalization. New York: Springer.