Horgan Seminar Blog

Matthew Feroz HST 401 - A Professor Horgan 2/28/2024 Mental Health Without Medication The topic of mental health is something that always makes me cringe when I write about it. It’s such a deeply personal topic, so nuanced, and definitely out of my league when finding a general solution to the millions plagued by depression, anxiety, and any other debilitating mental disorders. I also have loved ones I have lost to these disorders. These memories are painful to bring up and I am certain that countless others feel the same.  Thus, how do we as a society fight this crisis of declining mental health? It can’t be possible that there is no way to beat mental disorders, specifically depression. I will go over some scientifically proven methods of improving one’s state of depression and weigh the benefits with the amount of effort required.  Before you laugh about the premise of the statement above, I acknowledge I am privileged. I understand that some scenarios feel impossible to ov...

  Brisnid Pardo There is a light that never goes out Although she was a girl who didn’t grow up with much, she had family who loved her and support of generations past. Her parents made the ultimate sacrifice, leaving a life of poverty in the rearview and seizing the opportunity of upward mobility in a new world, a new place, a new country. However, somewhere along the way, the reins of her life yanked her in a different direction and put her on a road that led to tragedy and challenges. Things that were once beautiful and inspiring were suddenly dull and gray, and the harmonious flow of her life halted into a monotonous flatline. Compassion morphed into apathy as the things that used to matter, didn’t anymore. An era of love and light had dimmed, and there didn’t seem to be a light at the end of the tunnel. Mental health in Latino communities is heavily stigmatized; talking about feelings of depression/anxiety or anything of the sort is thought of as a sign of weakness and often...

Aidan Munoz   Professor Horgan   Seminar in Science Writing   28 February 2024   The Great “ Depression ” Epidemic   Suicide . Worthlessness . Insomnia . The symptoms and effects of depression can cause these issues to be extremely prevalent thoughts in one’s everyday life. According to the National Institute of Mental H ealth, i n just the year 2021, an estimated 21 million adults in the United States had at least one major depres s ive episode . With growing knowledge and information on what the implications and impacts of mental health issues mean for a person, it becomes essential to acknowledge the possibility of overdiagnosis. With depression estimated to be the most common mental disorder in the world, the prescribed “solutions ” , generally of pharmaceuticals and therapies , can either bring further help or harm to a believed diseased person .   If depression is so common, how common is the overdiagnosis of it? Asso ciate professor with ...