Depression and Anxiety in Canada

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by Lauren Harrod4 views·Updated Dec 15, 2020
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  1. so my general topic for the inquiry assignment was on
  2. mental health, and my research question is what social and
  3. psychological condition to create the stigma surrounding depression and anxiety
  4. in Canada.
  5. So for social media, mental health isn't all in the
  6. brain. It could be affected by our bodies.
  7. People with weight preoccupations or body dysmorphic disorder displayed higher
  8. levels of symptoms for depression and anxiety.
  9. Modern media and social media and influencers bombard us with
  10. images of idealized bodies.
  11. For women, it's limbless and flawlessness.
  12. For men, it's being muscular and having narrow hips.
  13. Despite knowing that an image has been doctored, most people
  14. still feel worse about their own bodies after viewing it.
  15. Having a negative relationship can lead to depression.
  16. Many people have stress and develop anxiety about having the
  17. perfect body being too sad or tired toe want to
  18. go to the gym, but stressing and worrying about their
  19. bodies when they don't go to the gym because of
  20. the influencers who make us think that we have to
  21. be skinny to be beautiful judgment and discrimination.
  22. Individuals with the mental health are often faced with multiple
  23. intersecting layers of discrimination as a result of their mental
  24. illness and their identity.
  25. Many students studies have found that media and entertainment industry
  26. play a key role in shaping public opinions about mental
  27. health and illness.
  28. When people have depression, they're considered lesser people.
  29. They are incapable of living a normal life, holding down
  30. a job or keeping a relationship.
  31. Sometimes the stigma surrounding uh, attached to depression is so
  32. precip too pervasive that people who suspect they might have
  33. depression are unwilling to seek help for fear of what
  34. others may think.
  35. Due to the stigma associated with depression, many people have
  36. found that they lose their self esteem and have difficulty
  37. making friends and often experienced bullying TV and media media
  38. portrayals of depression are not always so accurate.
  39. For example, take the Internet backlash surrounding the net like
  40. serious 13 reasons why, which included some negative stereotypes about
  41. depression and suicide.
  42. We can stigmatize ourselves feeling shame for who we are
  43. because of the way that society and teenagers make us
  44. feel. But by using non stigmatizing language, those who are
  45. experiencing challenges my experience for barriers for accessing supports.
  46. So I chose to connect my topic to Abigail Williams,
  47. Um, and the quote I chose was I used to
  48. weep for my sins when the wind lifted up my
  49. skirt. Then you burned away all my ignorance.
  50. And Abigail was just evil to readers before they learned
  51. that she had a troubled past and was living with
  52. her uncle after her parents died.
  53. Both her and her uncle, we're making the best of
  54. the situation.
  55. But her uncle was obviously resentful because of the rumors
  56. that were going around, which made Abigail sad and made
  57. her do probably more horrible things and not see.