ASU1: Facts of Depression
10 Myths of Depression:
Depression is not a medical problem
Depression only affects women
Children are too happy to be depressed
There's nothing that can be done to treat depression
Depression is just 'getting the blues', it isn't serious
You can cure depression by being optimistic
Give it time, depression will go away
Talking about being depressed only makes it worse
You can only be depressed when something bad or traumatic happens
Depression is just a chemical imbalance in the brain. Take a pill and you'll be fine