Thematic presentation on depression “let's understand it better" was conducted in seminar hall on 8th August 2017 at 3.30 p.m. by 2nd Medical and Psychiatric Social Work students. This program went on as per the following agenda, at first student of 2nd MPSW performed a role play, and followed by power point presentation.
The presentation explained about how depression is different from sadness, meaning, causes and symptoms like lack of sleep, poor appetite, decreased interest in favourite activities, significant weight loss or gain, fatigue or loss of energy and also about the diagnosis. Mental health interventions like psycho education, Cognitive Behaviour Therapy, inter personal therapy etc were discussed. Program ended with the video of cine star Deepika Padukone as an ambassador for depression.
