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DEPRESSION

BEING DEPRESSED / BEING LOW

 


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Conversation Questions -
Interactive exercises - Lesson plans -
Cartoons - Poems - Songs - Posters - TV series - Videos - Cinema

(Updated on 16/02/2013)


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Suicide -

Optimism / Pessimism - Boredom -

Feelings / Emotions - Happiness - Death - Bullying - Addiction(s)

 

"Ten years ago we had Steve Jobs, Bob Hope, and Johnny Cash. 
Now we have no jobs, no hope and no cash."

Facts :

  • Is depression good for you?
    "Pills aren't the answer to helping many people recover from depression, says a report out this week. But there's growing evidence that gloominess
    could be a positive experience."
    Creativity - GWB, not GDP - Superman...
    (BBC)

 

  • Desperate Housewives - an American television series (Wikipedia)
    "The tone and style of the series combine elements of
    drama, comedy, mystery, satire, and soap opera    ."


Vocabulary :

  • 20 Ways to Cry
    "Opportunities abound for describing lachrymal lamentations. Here are twenty synonyms for cry, plus some related expressions."
    (dailywritingtips.com)

  • LONELY / LONER :
    What's the difference between being lonely and a loner?
    "Nearly half of us have felt depressed because we have felt alone, says a report.
    But not everyone who is alone is sad about it, so what is the difference between being lonely and being a loner?"
    (BBC)

 

  • Depressed : definitions (thefreedictionary.com) - UPDATED
  • happy/unhappy (answers.com)

  • Depression (mood) - (Wikipedia)
    1 Determinants of mood
    1.1 Environment
    1.2 Internal psychological factors
    1.3 Biological models of causation
    2 Adaptive benefits of depression
    3 Mental disorders with depression
    4 External links

 

Cliparts :

 

 


 

 

Unhappy

 

 

Depressed
(cal.org)

 

Downcast

 
It won't work out
(youthchg.com)

Stress
(nyu.edu)

 
Discouraged
(img.photobucket.com)

 

 

Conversation Questions :

  • Stress (iteslj.org) This website is temporarily unavailable. Try again!
  • Annoying Things (iteslj.org) This website is temporarily unavailable. Try again!
  • Suicide (idebate.org)
    "Should suicide be a criminal offence?    "




INTERACTIVE exercises :

 

  • Desperate Housewives
    "How well do you know the characters of this American series?"
    Activity created by: Renée Maufroid

 

  • Sadness - an interactive quiz (BBC)
  • Les états, les adjectifs ("hungry, sad, happy, tired"...) - exercices - (Hervé Humbert)

 

 

Lesson plans :

  • Melancholia: 2nd Conditional - a lesson
    "Although many people criticized this movie, I really liked it. Thought-provoking, its two different stories hypnotized me until the last scene.
    This activity is to practice the use of the 2nd conditional orally."
    (moviesegmentstoassessgrammargoals.blogspot.fr)

  • Mediterranean Diets Keep You Happier - a lesson plan
    WARM-UPS :
    MEDITERRANEAN FOOD / NATIONAL DIET / YOU ARE WHAT YOU EAT / DEPRESSION / DIET
    (breakingnewsenglish.com)

  • Londoners offered BLT for SAD - a lesson plan
    with "a news article, listening (MP3 file), podcast, communication activities, pair work, discussion, reading and vocabulary exercises."
    BLT = Bright Light Therapy
    SAD = Seasonal Affective Disorder
    (Breaking News English)

 

  • Depression - a lesson plan - UPDATED
    Students will "create a poster that highlights one common misconception about depression, and the truth behind that myth."
    (school.discovery.com)
  • Happy and Sad - a vocabulary and idiom lesson - UPDATED
    "The aim is to highlight the metaphorical meanings of several words and phrases related to the emotions of happiness and sadness.The emphasis is on meaning, with an activity to incorporate these expressions into use."
    (onestopenglish.com)

 

Cartoons :

 

Nobody cares
(cartoonstock.com)

 

Suicide
(Sorry! No link)

 

Sad shape
(bp0.blogger.com)


Poems :

 

 

Songs :

 

  • Laurent Wolf - No Stress (OFFICIAL VIDEO HQ) + LYRICS :
    "I don’t wanna work today
    Maybe I just wanna stay
    Just take it easy cause there's no stress...
    Got to find an alibi
    Cause I don't wanna waste my time
    I don't wanna feel distress..."
    (paroles-musique.com)

 

  • Yael Naim - Go To The River (YouTube)
    + the LYRICS
    "When you feel ashamed go to the river
    When you’re feeling sad go to the river
    When you’re feeling blue inside, immersed and tied
    When you’re feeling stuck in pain, forever...
    When you’re feeling bad, go to the river
    When you’re feeling mad, go to the river
    When you feel it blows your mind, cause you can’t find
    When you feel you’re going blind, you can’t deny…
    When you feel you’ll lose your mind – they’ll let you slide
    When you feel you go insane – they let you die"
    (tictacflo.com)
  • No Stress by Laurent Wolf
    (YouTube)
    + the LYRICS :
    "I don’t wanna work today..
    Nothing's gonna cause me distress...
    I don't wanna waste my time
    I don't wanna feel distress.
    It’s not that I’m lazy
    I think I’m just crazy
    Not depressing"
    (paroles-musique.com)
  • Mad World sung by Gary Jules
    "All around me are familiar faces
    Worn out places, worn out faces
    Bright and early for their daily races
    Going nowhere, going nowhere
    Their tears are filling up their glasses
    No expression, no expression
    Hide my head I want to drown my sorrow
    No tomorrow, no tomorrow..."
    - the VIDEO     (YouTube)

 

  • Open Book by The Rakes :
    "You are not an open book
    I can't do nothing 'bout that
    But I'm worried, I'm overdrawn...
    The longer you are far from me
    The more I drift away"
    - with the video (YouTube)

 

  • All By Myself by Tom Jones :
    "Hard to be sure
    Sometimes I feel so insecure
    And love's so distant and obscure...
    All by myself, I don't want to live
    All by myself anymore."
  • Always Look On The Bright Side Of Life by Bruce Cockburn :
    "If life seems jolly rotten, there's something you've forgotten
    And that's to laugh and smile and dance and sing
    When you're feeling in the dumps, don't be silly chumps
    Just purse your lips and whistle, that's the thing, and...
    Always look on the bright side of life"
  • Blue Feeling by The Animals :
    "Blue blue feeling got me down today
    Blue blue feeling, my baby's gone away"
  • Candyman (niehs.nih.gov)
    "Who can take tomorrow,
    Dip it in a dream?
    Separate the sorrow and collect up all the cream,
    The candyman? The Candyman can, the candyman can &"
  • Ironic by Alanis Morissette :
    "An old man turned ninety-eight
    He won the lottery and died the next day..."
  • Low by Coldplay :
    "I feel low"
  • My Happiness by Elvis Presley :
    " Evening shadows make me blue
    When each weary day is through
    How I long to be with you
    My happiness"
    (sing365.com)
  • Something Beautiful by Robbie Williams :
    "If you're lost, hurt, tired or lonely
    Can't control it try as you might
    May you find that love never leave you
    May you find it by the end of the day
    You WON'T be lost, hurt, tired or lonely
    Something beautiful will come your way"

  • The Way U Make Me Feel by Black-Eyed Peas :
    "When I'm feeling blue, I think of you..."

  • Welcome To My Life by Simple Plan :
    "You don't know what it's like
    To be like me
    To be hurt
    To feel lost
    To be left out in the dark
    To be kicked when you're down
    To feel like you've been pushed around
    To be on the edge of breaking down
    And no one's there to save you
    No you don't know what it's like
    Welcome to my life..."
    - with the VIDEO (YouTube)

  • When I come to you by Jonny Lang :
    "When I'm all alone
    When I'm feelin' blue
    No one understands me, baby
    Nobody but you"


Posters :

 

TV series :

  • Desperate Housewives - an American television series (Wikipedia)
    "The tone and style of the series combine elements of
    drama, comedy, mystery, satire, and soap opera    ."

 

Videos :

 

Cinema :