Part 3. How to deal with depression and anger?

A. Keywords. depression, drugs, psycho-therapy, public education.

Vocabulary. moderate.

Listen to a talk about how to treat depression.

Fill in the blankets with words you here.

When most people are sad, they know the feeling is only temporary.

But there are large numbers of people who stay sad for a long time.

These people suffer from the common mental sickness known as depression.

Depression can affect anyone.

Researchers say one out ten persons in the world has the chance of developing a major depression at some time.

About 80% of the depressed patients can be helped with one of several drugs that have all been found effective in treating depression.

Doctors say, however, the drugs must be used very carefully.

Depression also can be treated without drugs.

Some doctors say that moderate activity, 4 or 5 times a week can help treat minor depression.

For example, running or walking rapidly for 30 minutes 4 times a week can improve mental as well as physical health.

The traditional treatment for depression known as psycho-therapy calls for depressed people to spend 1 hour or more each week talking about their condition with doctors trained to treat mental problems.

Discussion is supposed to help depressed people discover new ways of thinking and dealing with problems.

Public education is needed to help people better understand depression.

B. Keywords. anger.

Vocabulary. tether, suppress, manifest, surly, cleanse, vent, ebb away, dump, uptight, punch.

B1. You're going to hear two speakers talking about dealing with anger.

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Speaker 1.

I actually... I, I very rarely get angry.

Erm, I, I've quite a long tether when it comes to anger, erm, which doesn't mean I really don't believe I'm suppressing any anger at all.

but, it manifests itself in a very sarcastic way with me.

Like for an example, I'm, I'm, if I'm buying a...railway ticket or something, and the...and the guy behind the counter is very surly, and er, you know refuses to treat me, er like a human being.

I won't be, get angry with him, but I'll get very sarcastic with him and try to mark very very clever remark. (Oh...yes,one of those, yes...)

And er that for me, that for me serves its purpose. I do feel er very...I feel very cleansed after a situation like that.

Oh, I, of course I do sometimes, if it's absolutely necessary I do get very angry, if I'm taken that far.

But I certainly don't suppress any anger.

Speaker 2.

Well, my anger is tie up with my sleepless nights.

I mean, if I do not sleep well, I wake up in the morning, I am angry, I use any excuse to vent my anger on anybody.

If I sleep well, then everything is fine. I'm a joyous, warm, loving person.

Sleepless nights, I'm full of anger and my anger does not ebb away unless I use a thing or somebody to vent it upon.

As weak as that may sound, that's how I work.(mm)

And it's a terrible sort of admission to make to everybody here.

If I'm looking for excuses for having woken up in a particular bad way, so, er... in a way, anger is something I have to get out.

I do not carry it around by weeping, and like crying.

I believe in dumping it.

B2. Now listen to a conversation talking about ways to deal with anger.

Write down the key points in the chart below.

Apparently, in, er...I don't know if this is true, but in Japan, er, if factory workers, er, get a bit uptight or angry, they can go out into er, the gym or something which is usually attached to the factory.

And there are punch bags there with pictures of their boss.

And they can go and they can spend 20 minutes punching hell out of this punch bag.

(Sounds great...Oh, right) And they go back to work and they feel great.

Oh, god, yes. Well, that brings us on to laughing then.

(Yeah)That made me laugh.That made me laugh.

That's, That's one way of dealing with anger, as well, I suppose. If you actually remove yourself from the situation and just laugh at it.

Um, I mean I think, I, I think laughter is, is again, one of the most wonderful releases.

And, and, er I mean I think that's actually been proved, you know the chemical that is released when you laugh, is, is, is life-enhancing and life, er, elongating too, you know. (Yeah)

It promotes a healthy, a healthier being.

And it heals wounds. It does...