Good News for Worriers Who Suffer from Depression

Good News for Worriers Who Suffer from Depression


Reference：
Good News for Worriers Who Suffer from Depression, St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Retrieved April 15, 2010, from http://www.apa.org/news/psycport/PsycPORTArticle.aspx?id=knightridder_2010_04_15__0000-7012-SL-Good-news-for-worriers-who-suffer-from-depression-0415.xml

Summary：
Researchers at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign found that worrying action can help reduce the effects of depression. Through the searcher of brain, researchers found that depression and anxiety are common co-diagnoses, and anxiousness can causes patterns of brain activity in the right inferior temporal lobe and chronic worry can causes patterns of brain in the left frontal lobe region, a place which is connected to language and depression has been advanced revealed to activate the brain's right frontal lobe. For this study, researcher found that there is an increased activity in the area of the brain when people feel anxiety, and this phenomenon is also commonly happened in depression. So the research suggests that sometimes worrying is a good thing to do for people because it can counterbalance the depressed emotion and reduce its effects.

Reaction：
With the development of society, more and more people feel high pressure from their life or careers that lead to production of some negative sentiments, like anxiousness, fidgeting and testiness. Meanwhile, a new study result of depression has founded that worrying is not a bad phenomenon any more, and can reduce the effects of depression. For example, someone took a test yesterday, but he doesn’t know whether he can get a high score in this test, so he feels a little worried about this test. But he can accept the situation easily when he knows he didn’t pass the test, because he already had anticipated this result in his mind before. Sometimes, a little worrying can help us accept the bad news with anticipation and keep us far from depression.

Vocabulary：
Combination: together
Panic: a sudden, strong feeling of anxiety or fear that prevents reasonable thought and action and may spread to influence many people
Arousal: not always sexual, but it sounds sexual
Chronic: A chronic illness or problem continues for a long time.
Frontal: a frontal attack/assault when you criticize or attack someone or something in a very strong and direct way
Diagnosis: when a doctor says what is wrong with someone who is ill
Patterns: way a particular way that something is often done or re