Kaitlyn Mullins

Christine Endlich
RWS
Annotated Bibliography on Depression versus Dramatization

Azeem, M., Dogar, I., Shah, S., Cheema, M., Asmat, A., Akbar, M., & ... Haider, I. (2013).
Anxiety and depression among parents of children with intellectual disability in Pakistan.
Journal of the Canadian Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry, 22(4), 290-295.
Within this article, there is a discussion and an experiment that discusses association
between parental distress and caretaking of children with developmental delays. The
results turned out to be that parents with children that have intellectual disability, have
symptoms of anxiety and depression or both. These are focused on the adult and parent
age group, including how they feel because of the situation they experience. Showing
actual situations where a person may be in a difficult area in life resulting in depression
and anxiety. This article would benefit my research because the study of stress and
depression within parents result in similar symptoms within their children.
BuzzFeedYellow. (2014, August 28) What people with depression want you to know [Video file]
Retrieved from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IQr1G1OOEEQ
This video presents multiple quotes of how a person with depression feels. It allows the
audience to feel what the speaker, or the one who quoted, is feeling along with the images
presented and music playing. All these factors played in to express how each quote is
feeling. This will benefit in my research because it gives the audience the question, Is
this person actually depressed? It gives a more biased look going for those with
depression but in my opinion it does well with putting the position on the line because
you dont know who is saying the quote and where the video is getting their information.

DeSimone, A., & Murray, P. (1994). Alcohol use, self-esteem, depression, and suicidality in high
school students. Adolescence, 29(116), 939.
In this article, there is a study on students under the age of 21. Measuring the self-esteem
of teenagers and the use of alcohol led to depression. As well as high school students,
those 21 years and older, those who drink and those who dont, connecting it all to
depression and self-esteem. It may be that the students who drank more often and who
misused alcohol were "faking good" on the self-esteem scale but, if this is the case, the
question arises as to why they did not fake good on the depression scale. This will
benefit my research because it allows the point of view of results from high school
student studies. It will allow me to have a bigger variety of people to look at rather than
having a small range from an age group.
Drunk, Rum-Punch. (2012, July 28). Depression-Real or fake? [Web blog post] Retrieved from
http://rumpunchdrunk.blogspot.com/2012/07/depression-real-or-fake.html
This blog post is an opinion on depression by a person, which doesnt give an actual
name, but expresses their thoughts on the situation. This person explains how someone
who, with depression may feel and those who think they have depression may feel. They
say, Remove the cause and the depression will go away. The cause being a stressful
situation that someone would feel like they are being brought down. This will benefit my
research because this person seems to be unbiased all the way across. They present a
view point that I can understand and possibly agree with to continue on with my research.
Foundation, Mental Health. (2012, May). Munchausen syndrome. Retrieved from
http://www.betterhealth.vic.gov.au/bhcv2/bhcarticles.nsf/pages/Munchausen_syndrome
This website describes Munchausen syndrome, which is a mental disorder in which a
person fakes illness to gain attention and sympathy. It is a type of disorder but it almost
seems more like an addiction to attention. It is not similar to depression in anyway and a
person that is faking an illness will do anything in their power to make a doctor or
anybody else believe that they are sick. This information will benefit my research
because it shows how far a person will go to get attention and presents a difference
between a person with depression and a person with this syndrome.

Staff, Mayo Clinic. (2014, May 4). Symptoms. Retrieved from
http://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/factitious-disorder/basics/symptoms/con-
In this website article, the Mayo Clinic Staff describe how a patient acts or what
symptoms a person may have when they are faking an illness. In other words, a
factitious disorder making it in great lengths to make someone believe that they are
actually sick, when they really arent. This website includes actual symptoms a person
may have when they are attempting to fake an illness. This will benefit my research
because it will allow me to pinpoint what an actual difference is between a person with
depression and someone who doesnt have an illness. This video may be biased but will
benefit me in both ways.

Wilson, K. T., Bohnert, A. E., Ambrose, A., Davis, D. Y., Jones, D. M., & Magee, M. J. (2014).
Social, behavioral, and sleep characteristics associated with depression symptoms among
undergraduate students at a women's college: a cross-sectional depression survey, 2012.
BMC Women's Health, 14(1), 1-14. doi:10.1186/1472-6874-14-8
In this article, they mention an experiment that they conduct upon students, handing them
a survey, recording their habits and relating them to depression. They found the survey
identified the absence of all the said characteristics predicted depression within the
college students due to anxiety that they face. This research will benefit my topic
because the article is based on an experiment to estimate the prevalence of depression and
determine behavioral and social characteristics associated with depression among
students attending a women's college. This research will help benefit by showing how
those behavioral and social characteristics are with students contrasting behaviors.