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Does my pain have a name?
Does my pain have a name?
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Why are women in their 20s and 30s prone to depression?
Depression is not because of "pre-existing illness"
Let them tell in their own words Freedom from medical disease and social stigma Write a new brief history of suffering for women
Depression is not because of "pre-existing illness"
Let them tell in their own words Freedom from medical disease and social stigma Write a new brief history of suffering for women
From 2003 to 2020, South Korea has repeatedly become the country with the highest suicide rate among OECD (Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development) member countries, and "depression" has been pointed out as the main culprit for the high suicide rate, which has always been regarded as the cause of social The cause of the problem. In recent years, more and more women aged 20 and 30 have been diagnosed with mental illness, and the suicide rate of women aged 20 is also increasing. In 2020, there will be more suicides among women aged 20-29 in South Korea than last year 40% out. Suicide among young women is such a problem that South Korean authorities have classified women in their 20s and 30s as an official suicide risk group.
More and more people are seeking help from psychiatrists, and writings have begun to appear one after another sharing their own experiences with the disease. However, the author believes that although the narratives of these illness experiences are very important, if we only reflect on depression in the form of "personal experience", it is difficult to examine the disease called depression from the perspective of social and historical context. And our explanation of the causes of depression will therefore be limited to discussing the environment and personality of the patient.
Why do 2.30-year-old women suffer from depression? The author of this book is also a manic-depressive patient himself, and realizes that mental illness is not simply a personal problem. In the book, she interviewed thirty-one female depression patients aged 2 and 30, combined her own psychiatric knowledge and personal experience of facing medical injustice, and spent two years writing this book.
This book adopts a new point of view, uses the patient's own language, redefines the pain called "depression", and creates a public communication platform for the public, so that everyone can discuss the shared suffering experience and propose a more equal perspective. Perspectives on depression.
Just like the American writer and poet Anne. Ball said: "The history of disease is not the history of medicine, but the history of the world." The author of this book breaks away from the definitions of medical disease and social stigma, and writes a new brief history of suffering for women, which is the starting point for a change in the way a culture understands pain. The author allows women suffering from depression-related diseases to speak in their own language, no longer letting doctors and counselors take away the right to interpret them, but to become the authors of their own lives. The interviewees include Korean women in Korea and overseas. Across high school graduation to graduate school graduation.
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