Introduction

Question 1

what is mental distress?

Answer 1

term used to describe a range of symptoms and experiences of a person’s internal life that are commonly held to be troubling, confusing or out of the ordinary.

Question 2

what is depression

Answer 2

a common form of mental distress, is major depression, a serious condition with extensive individual and societal impact

Question 3

what is the prevalence of major depression?

Answer 3

most common, among most disabling disease in the world. described as the common cold of the psychiatry world (Rosenhan and Seligman, 1989)

Question 4

Diagnosis of depression

Answer 4

DSM- need to have 5 / more symptoms, such as depressed mood, increase / decrease in weight and appetite, loss of interest/ pleasure, fatigue / loss of energy, insomnia.

Question 5

what can these symptoms result in?

Answer 5

1000 different combinations of depression, Fried and Nesse 2015.

Question 6

what is the aim of the essay?

Answer 6

with mental distress and major depression being so prevalent, important to research biomedical views of mental distress as they have been influential in the diagnosis and treatment of mental distress.
Like all models, the biomedical view is not without its criticisms and flaws. This essay aims to address these.