Max Wallis Professor Padgett ENG 1102-016 Oct-29-13

Annotated Bibliography Topic: Is depression becoming more common today? Proposed thesis: What is causing depression to become more common today?

Sargent, Marilyn. Plain Talk About-- Depression. Rockville, Md.?: U.S. Dept. of Health and Human Services, National Institutes of Health, National Institute of Mental Health, 1994. Print. This book provides a great jumping off point for learning about depression. The author discusses many aspects of depression including the types of depression, the causes, and the symptoms. The author also includes information on the side affects of depression and the wide array of possible treatments. This source was extremely useful in familiarizing myself with a disease I previously knew very little about. It provided a well-rounded and introductory level description of depression. This source was the first one that I looked at in detail

Sargent, Marilyn. Plain talk about-- depression. Rockville, Md.?: U.S. Dept. of Health and Human Services, National Institutes of Health, National Institute of Mental Health, 1994. Print.

This article provides an excellent examination of depression historically. It is focused heavily on the way the disease was interpreted in different historical times. The examination starts post 1700- and continues up to around the 1930s. The author provides great examples from each different time period and illustrates the change over time effectively. This particular article was very helpful in relation to my thesis statement. The historical perceptions on depression provide some explanation as to why depression is seemingly more common in todays society as apposed to those have years passed.

Bower, B.. "Depression Rates Rise Over Generations." Science News 142.23 (1992): 391. Print. Although short, this article was quite useful in relation to my topic. It comes from the scientific journal Science Times, and in it the author has lots of useful information regarding the consistent generational depression increase since the early nineteen hundreds. The author comments how modern experts still dont fully understand this consistent increase in cases of depression. The article even explores some of the experts possible theories on the phenomenon. The source concluded with a short description about what is being done to counteract these statistics here in America. Describing a program in Bethesda, Maryland that is attempting to raise awareness on the disease.

Jelenchick, Lauren . "Facebook Depression? Social Networking Site Use and Depression in Older Adolescents." Journal of Adolescent Health 52.1 (2013): 128-130. Science Direct. Web. 29 Oct. 2013. This article published in the Journal of Adolescent Health was very useful when exploring depression in todays society. The article focuses on the affects of social media

and the Internet on modern depression. It explores how current generations are the first to experience these negative affects of the Internet age. Depression among this internet generation is particularly relevant to my topic. It provides a particularly strong explanation for increased depression rates.

Economou, Marina . "Major depression in the Era of economic crisis: A replication of a crosssectional study across Greece." Journal of Affective Disorders 145.3 (2013): 308-314. Print. This source from the Journal of Affective Disorders was very helpful in relation to my thesis. In my paper one of the topics I hope to look at is what affect economic factors have on depression, and this article discusses this very topic. In the article they discuss the financial crisis in Greece and the affect that this has had on depression rates in the country. The article suggests that these results would be replicated in most other places suffering from an economic crisis.

"An Estimated 1 in 10 U.S. Adults Report Depression." Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 31 Mar. 2011. Web. 1 Nov. 2013. <http://www.cdc.gov/features/dsdepression/>. I used the Center for Disease Control and Preventions website for researching hard facts. They provide a wide array of statistics related to depression that were useful to me. Also being a government website their information is very credible and reliable, because of this it was the go to place for me when checking my facts.