II Guerra Mundial e Depressão

World War II and Depression é um dos textos que escrevi enquanto estudava no Canadá. Achei curioso quando o encontrei em meus arquivos, e resolvi o postar. O texto está em inglês, se alguem não puder ler, e realmente quiser ler o texto, eu posso fazer uma tradução. A dissertação mostra como a doença Depressão cresceu desde a II Guerra Mundial. Aí vai:

World War II and Depression

Gabriel L.

"The World War II changed the world in many ways such as the economy, technology, political and social, however, this war made the humans to have to deal with new situations. Many of these situations makes easier the appearance of depressive disorders and “the number of people who experience depression was increased with every generation since WWII”. Three of the most affected people was the soldiers, the women and the children.

At first, the soldiers were affected directly by the war and they experienced many situations that can bring depression. One of them was the battles that they fought; experiences like that can become a traumatic event and “the effects of trauma, sometimes even seemingly minor trauma, can last for years or a lifetime.” Traumatic situations like that can cause a depression during or after the war. Also, the day-by-day at war were nervous, to illustrate, the soldiers never know when the enemy would attack, it can bring stress what is one of the symptoms of depression.

Secondly, the women did not fight, however, they also were affected by the war and depression risk increased. With the World War II, the role of women in society changed, for example they entered the work-force, and social restrictions had weakened. Women have benefited from changes in work and family roles, however, it increased depression and stress rates. Likewise, with the war many women stay without their husbands who went to fight in war, because of this many of them had to take care of their children alone. It is not easy to take care of a child alone and “single parents have added stress and finances are often limited”. The stress increases the chance to get depressed.

Thirdly, the children as well were affected by the war increasing the chances of get depressed. During the war, many children were separated from their fathers and some of them also were separated from their mothers. It is possible to imagine how these children felt without their parent’s love. “The loss of parent’s love can be very painful” and increase the chance of the child become depressed. Like it was said before, the depression increased in women and men in this period and the chance of a child get depressed were even higher because “if one parent suffers from depression, the child is three times more likely to have a mood disorder than children whose parents are not depressed.

In fact, the World War II just gave the humans more situations which makes easier to get depressed, and since them the depression risk just increased. Finally, this disease can effect anyone even without a war."

Curiosiadade a parte, segundo o site da GlaxoSmithKline Brasil, a depressão é a doença que mais cresce no mundo. Por isso, o tema me despertou a atenção, e espero que possa ser do interesse de todos. O importante é saber que esta é uma doença que tem tratamento.

Grande abraço!