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1. Summary

According to author Jack Dominan, in his book “Childhood and Adolescence” (Depression, May 1982), he informs us the reasons which cause babies and adolescents depression.

Dominan informs us to think why babies have a sharp change as they are separated and reunited with mothers. For this question, Dominan reasons that the change occurred because they get contact and nurturing by a parent or caregiver. Furthermore, Dominan indicates two possible reasons that adolescents get depressed. Firstly, unlike babies, adolescents develop depressive symptoms when they leave their comfortable home for a period of time, either going to camp or boarding at schools far from their city. Secondly, Dominan demonstrates that some adolescents become depressed when they feel they are not as attractive as other youth of their age. They also feel worried that no member of the opposite gender will be attracted to them.

At the end of the chapter, Dominan mentions that it’s easier to cure depression in infants with the help of warm parents, adolescents need more medical help because they are often forced to achieve maturity before they are psychological prepared.

2. Critique

As mentioned in the chapter that depression affects both babies and adolescents. The author wants us to know the reasons they get depressed and how to cure them. He organizes his writing very well. So I can easily understand. As far as I’m concerned, this chapter of the book is very good and offers a lot of useful information that helps people more understanding with taking care of babies and adolescents. In addition, I think we under pressure are basic from school and parents because their expectations of us are much higher than we actually can achieve. We want to be good, yet everyone has their different level of abilities to accomplish certain endeavors. Obviously, the psychological pressure will be increasing and lead to depression. Therefore, all of people need to consider this problem that occurs to most of the families more and more often.

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In the article"existential depression", the author Douglas Eby mentions that existential depression doesn't occur to a lot of people, yet it usually happens to very gifted people.
Eby states that although this type of depression is not specific, it can make a person feel numb and unable to complete certain tests. Moreover, Eby figures out that a small number of people may feel like life is not worth living and decide to committee a suicide. In addition, Eby demonstrates that other researches on depression, such as the research done by Clive Hezell PhD confirms that there is a related existential depression where people feel emotionally disturbed because they do not think they have participated in life and feel guilty about it. Furthermore, Eby also informs depression is caused by anxiety that is the inability to work as intensely as they are expected to work, and this causes this type of people to be less creative.
At the end, Eby suggests methods to deal with existential depression by becoming more involved in creative projects so that life will become more purposeful.

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In the article" Who should pay for university?" the author Kate Fillion mentioned an argument between some university students who pay for themselves and other students for whom their parents pay.
The author informed about the different opinions between two kinds of parents. Even though those self-supporting students know it is not easy that do not have parental support, they learn how hard it is to get what they want and how hard for each one dollar. Therefore, many people think it is a good valuable lesson. The author gave some evidences to analyze what is the real situation about how many parents pay for their kids and how much they have to pay every year. Because of the human nature, many parents think paying for their kids is kind of parental responsibility and they called it "an investment in the future". However, some students who get money easily from their parents do not know how difficult to make money. Therefore, they used a lot of money to go shopping or go to clubs. Fillion also figured out that those students have no financial responsibilities. Then, some students and their parents have made a new agreement which is parents loaning money to their kids for paying tuition. As the result, many students think it may be more effective since they loan the money, thus, they have to control themselves how to use money. On the other hand, they do not need pay interest to their parents so that they have less stress than loaning money from banks.
In conclusion, Fillions informed those self-supporting students think who pay by themselves is an important reason why they could be successful.

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According to author Donald F Klein, MD, in his article "When depression strikes HIM" (Prevention, September, 1996), one of the most serious disease depression that affect more women than men.
Klein states that one of the reasons is that man usually do not seek medical help since they are trained to hide their emotions or admit that they have a problem. For these reasons, male depression end up being more severe than females. Klein also indicates that in order to treat the disease, man must seek the help of a psychiatrist. Furthermore, they must to recognize that depression is a serious disease that is mostly caused by chemical imbalance in the brain. Klein also demonstrates that this imbalance may occur because of stressful events in some one's life, such as divorce, death, lose of job. Moreover, he informs the symptoms of that the disease is usually visible in a loss of energy, changes in a sleep pattern, weight gain or weight loss, physical pain and high alcohol intake. In addition, Klein remarks that family heredity plays a part in depression as well.
At the end of the article, Klein suggests the methods to be aware of this disease and offers possible solutions to curing and helping overcome the problems.

About me

I am Rebecca. Hello, everyone. I am so happy to know more people in YUELI. I like making friends. In the free time, I like chatting online with friends or go shopping with them so that I can release all pleasure from busy work. Hopefully, we can all pass this level. ^.^