Part one of term paper
Hundreds of years ago, humans were plagued with "crazy fear". Then the Greeks blamed an imbalance of black bile for the melancholia suffered by so many people. Centuries later, in a country where Prozac and PMS jokes are part of the cultural landscape, we have a new term for our "craziness", our melancholy-, or major depressive disorder. And ...

Part two of term paper
... concerns of the mental health field, not to mention a booming antidepressant industry. In this arena, women are often the focus-we are at least twice as likely as men to develop some form of . Yes, is more widely understood and yes, there are powerful treatments that produce real relief. Yet is still widely misunderstood and stigmatized as a "character flaw" rather than being more correctly perceived as a recognized illness. Depressed? Sometimes it's hard to know what really is because it h ...