After learning in class today about psychological and sociological explanations of deviance, I found an interesting article about depression that relates to both of these two factors.
In a recent British study, researchers found that people who  battle despression 79% of them have reported that they have faced descrimination at some point. This statistic was not only people from Britain, but it included over 1,000 people from 35 different countries, which makes this a problem people face world wide. People  who believe they are descriminated against because they are depressed, and those who choose not to get help because of the fear of being descriminated against both face a psychological problem. Yet this problem of depression shows that it is not only psychological problems because people are not only becoming depressed because of thoughts or events in their life. People are depressed because they feel descriminated against at public places like work, and school, and in relationships with co-workers, and friends. Much more research is needed, and descrimination in depression is going to be looked at much more because of this recent finding.
This article jumped right out at me after I read it. It related alot of what we talked about in class like psychological and sociological explanations to depression, a mental problem that people throughout the world deal with everyday. Depression is a very serious topic in our country and results for 38,000 deaths a year in the United States alone. I think depression is confusing, no one really knows what a person is thinking about or even why they are thinking about it. The fact that 79% of people who are depressed because of descrimination is disturbing and something that needs to be fixed.