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Healing from Depression

Andrean Naufal (K2220012)

Video Title: Coping with Depression

Date: 23 October 2022

  1. What is being discussed in the video? Explain your answer.
    The video explains how to deal with depression. According to the video, feeling sad and sad in life is a natural thing and has become a part of everyday life. It’s also normal to feel depressed after something terrible happens. When a person is depressed, he may cry or have trouble sleeping, or lose his appetite. It’s okay if it happens in a short time, if it happens over a long period of time then it can be considered that he needs special treatment. There are many different symptoms that can occur in depressed people. However, depression can be successfully treated with proper medication.
  2. What is the speaker’s main purpose? Explain your answer.
    The speaker wants the viewers to be eager to know how to cope/deal with depression. Depression can happen to all people, and it has a different treatment. Some depression can be treated within ourselves and some need help from experts. The speaker aims to convince the viewer that depression can be treated properly.
  3. How trustworthy is this video? Who is the speaker? What is the source? Do you think the source and the speaker are trustworthy?
    I think the video can be trusted because it comes from the health system in America which serves more than 8.3 million clients annually. It’s called the Veterans Health Administration. They also have several medical centers in the US that can help clients solve their problems. From that information, I think the contents of the video can be trusted.
  4. What the speaker’s attitude or tone towards the subject? Does he/she seem to agree or disagree with it? Explain your answer.
    I think most of the speaker’s tone are agree on the subject. She was confident in her statements about depression. She relates his content to ordinary social life, and he also has a backup which is her community health system, The Veterans Health Administration. She has mentioned the website link and telephone number that can be contacted for a consultation.
  5. Does the speaker put forward valid or strong arguments? How does he/she support the key points? Explain your answer.
    The speaker mentioned that depression can be caused by many things, from small things to big things. For example: feeling hopeless, anxious, and losing interest in hobbies and activities you once enjoyed. If the person is diagnosed with depression, successful treatment can be given by means of psychotherapy. Because it helps you overcome depression by teaching you new ways of thinking and behaving. Or if it’s too difficult to be done, they can contact a mental health professional to help them deal with depression.
  6. Explain how this article will help contribute to your larger group project.
    This video can help explain what a depressed person should do when they find out they have depression. This will help others in understanding the proper treatment for depression. This video can also serve as a project outline sketch.

Video Title: Anxiety and Depression: What’s the Difference

Date: 30 October 2022

  1. What is being discussed in the video? Explain your answer.
    Difference between Anxiety and Depression through their symptoms and definitions. Anxiety/Stress is not to be equated with depression, they have different symptoms, causes, and treatments. Although they are mental disorders, they have differences in their manifestations.
  2. What is the speaker’s main purpose? Explain your answer.
    The speaker wanted to convey information about the difference between Depression and Anxiety because people often think that they are almost the same. They also find it difficult to tell the difference.
  3. How trustworthy is this video? Who is the speaker? What is the source? Do you think the source and the speaker are trustworthy?
    I think this video can be trusted because it comes from a youtube account called Psych2Go already has 10,1 M subscribers. Their content is also mostly about mental health. The video’s material comes from a licensed website called Medical News Today
  4. What the speaker’s attitude or tone towards the subject? Does he/she seem to agree or disagree with it? Explain your answer.
    The speaker agrees with the subject by delivering the video with her passionate tone.
  5. Does the speaker put forward valid or strong arguments? How does he/she support the key points? Explain your answer.
    Yes, she does. She points out the arguments with the social experience as a concrete example.
  6. Explain how this article will help contribute to your larger group project.
    This video will help my project by focusing on how people see the difference between anxiety and depression.

Video Title: What is Depression? Causes, Signs, and symptoms, Diagnosis and treatment.

Date: 7 November 2022

  1. What is being discussed in the video? Explain your answer.
    The video discussed the causes and symptoms of Depression. For instance, it comes from the hippocampus, a small part of the brain that is smaller for people who have depression rather than people who do not have it. The causes themselves can be in several categories such as abuse, conflict, death or loss, etc. On the other hand the sign are sleeping disturbance, too much or too less eat, moodswing etc
  2. What is the speaker’s main purpose? Explain your answer.
    The speaker wants the viewers to understand what is the main causes and symptoms of Depression.
  3. How trustworthy is this video? Who is the speaker? What is the source? Do you think the source and the speaker are trustworthy?
    The video was uploaded by a medical youtube account with 296k subscribers namely Medical Centric from Canada. They uploaded many videos about health and medic. I think this video can be trusted based on their experience in delivering medical content.
  4. What the speaker’s attitude or tone towards the subject? Does he/she seem to agree or disagree with it? Explain your answer.
    Yes, he does, the speaker agrees with what he talking about and he put strong arguments about the causes and the symptoms of depression.
  5. Does the speaker put forward valid or strong arguments? How does he/she support the key points? Explain your answer.
    He put strong arguments in his speech. He also mentioned categories of causes and symptoms that give him more valid points.
  6. Explain how this article will help contribute to your larger group project.
    This video will contribute to my project by completing the sub-main point which is the causes and symptoms of Depression.

Video Title: Depression Treatment Option: What to do if you’re diagnosed with depression

Date: 15 November 2022

  1. What is being discussed in the video? Explain your answer.
    The speaker talks about what should we do if we are diagnosed with depression. The speaker provided several treatments that can be taken to heal depression. Depression is treatable, it can be treated in many ways, starting from doing little things, and changing habits, until coming to the doctor or experienced person that can help to heal the depression effectively.
  2. What is the speaker’s main purpose? Explain your answer.
    The speaker wants to acknowledge the viewers that depression is treatable. It can be treated in many ways according to how severe is it.
  3. How trustworthy is this video? Who is the speaker? What is the source? Do you think the source and the speaker are trustworthy?
    I think the speaker is credible and she can be trusted. She is a licensed therapist from Nutshell. According to the youtube account it also can be trusted, with 1.5 million subscribers they create many kinds of therapist treatment.
  4. What the speaker’s attitude or tone towards the subject? Does he/she seem to agree or disagree with it? Explain your answer.
    The speaker seems to agree with the statement she provided. She delivers the material clearly and I can feel her enthusiasm.
  5. Does the speaker put forward valid or strong arguments? How does he/she support the key points? Explain your answer.
    Yes, she does. She mentioned that depression is treatable. She supports it with several data from Nutshell Therapy Center and concludes that depression does not have to be permanent. It can be treated in many ways such as medication, good quality sleep, etc.
  6. Explain how this article will help contribute to your larger group project.
    This video can help my progress in part Treatment for depression, which is really important for my topic. It already provided what I need in the part Treatment.

Video Title: Depression understood: what it is like to have depression

Date: 28 November 2022

  1. What is being discussed in the video? Explain your answer.
    The video shows what people experience or what people feel about depression. The trouble, stress, and anxiety of several people are different.
  2. What is the speaker’s main purpose? Explain your answer.
    The speaker wants to show what people think about depression. Depression happens differently in different people.
  3. How trustworthy is this video? Who is the speaker? What is the source? Do you think the source and the speaker are trustworthy?
    I think this video can be trusted because it invited some people who have suffered from depression.
  4. What the speaker’s attitude or tone towards the subject? Does he/she seem to agree or disagree with it? Explain your answer.
    The speakers show their own experiences but all of them agree that depression is should be treated.
  5. Does the speaker put forward valid or strong arguments? How does he/she support the key points? Explain your answer.
    The speakers put valid arguments about depression because they talk about their own experiences with depression.
  6. Explain how this article will help contribute to your larger group project.
    This will add some points to my project and it can fulfill my material. With arguments from society, we can know that depression is important to care about.