Political Cartoon

Origin: This cartoon tells me it has to do with the political situation in Iraq

Purpose: To show people the causes of the wars, which cause distruction

Value: The message they want to portray through this cartoon is importa so that those who are in wars can open thier eyes and see how Iraq is

Limitations: The descriptions shown in the cartoon clearly show that with wars there is distruction and that they want to change the name to Iran, it is also biased

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"Concern should drive us into action and not into a depression. No man is free who cannot control himself."
Pythagoras
"Depression is the inability to construct a future."
Rollo May

Enviromental Theory of Depression

The enviormental theory of depression basically states that your suroundings affect us and is involved in the further development of depression.They are not directly related to brain function, inherited traits from parents, medical illnesses, or anything else that may take place within us. Instead, environmental events are those things that happen in the course of our everyday lives. Also how this events affect the events that take place in our life and therefore lead to depression which can sometimes lead to suicide.

The causes of enviormental include situations like prolonged stress at home or work, coping with the loss of a loved one, or traumatic events. Sometimes researchers refer to these as sociological or psychosocial factors since they bring together events that happen out in society with the inner workings of a person's mind.

http://www.allaboutdepression.com/cau_04.html

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Cognitive Theory of depression

Cognitive theories appeared in response to the early behaviorists' failure to take thoughts and feelings seriously. The cognitive movement did not reject behavioral principles, however. Rather, the idea behind the cognitive movement was to integrate mental events into the behavioral framework.

According to cognitive behavioral theory, depressed people think differently than non-depressed people, and it is this difference in thinking that causes them to become depressed. For example, depressed people tend to view themselves, their environment, and the future in a negative, pessimistic light which leads to disorders and sometimes suicides. As a result, depressed people tend to misinterpret facts in negative ways and blame themselves for any misfortune that occurs. This negative thinking and judgment style functions as a negative bias; it makes it easy for depressed people to see situations as being much worse than they really are, and increases the risk that such people will develop depressive symptoms in response to stressful situations.

http://www.personalityresearch.org/papers/allen.html

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Biological Depression

The biological aspect of depression is very important it relates to genes and how we are capable of carring this through various generations. The classic biogenic amine theory of depression suggests that a shortage of noradrenalin and serotonin in the synaptic clefts is the neurobiological basis of depression. A molecular and cellular theory of depression states that stress-induced vulnerability and the therapeutic action of antidepressant treatments that takes place because such intracellular mechanisms that decrease or increase, respectively, the neurotrophic factors necessary for the survival and function of particular neurons.

Depression is often accompanied by certain biological alterations, which may well explain the comorbidity of depression and various diseases. Depression also can be carried in genes and may be sometimes hereditary which does not benefit us at us. This also states that while somtomes depression is considered a disease and is therefore hereditary like any other disease just like cancer or diabetes.

http://www.healthyplace.com/depression/main/causes-of-depression/menu-id-943/