Report on Health Promotion: Depression in Young Australian Adults

This report examines the issue of depression among Australian individuals aged 18 to 35. It explores the symptoms of depression, including hopelessness, fatigue, and changes in appetite, while also analyzing the disease's impact on both psychological and physiological health. The report identifies overthinking and substance use as primary contributors to depression within this age group. It further discusses social, environmental, and behavioral health determinants, such as ambition, jealousy, and the influence of gender roles. The availability of psychologists in Australia is also assessed. The report concludes with recommendations, including reading self-development books and incorporating positive thoughts. This report aims to provide a comprehensive understanding of depression among young Australians and suggests potential strategies for mitigation and prevention.

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Contents
Introduction................................................................................................................................3
Analysis of health of the 18 to 35 years old Australian people in context with the depression
disease........................................................................................................................................4
Analysis of the primary issues that are responsible for the depression between the targeted
group..........................................................................................................................................5
Social, environmental and behavioural health determinants......................................................5
Availability of the certified psychologist in the country to cure depression..............................6
Recommendations......................................................................................................................7
Conclusion..................................................................................................................................8
References..................................................................................................................................8

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Introduction
For this report, the selected population is the Australian people who belong from the
age group of 18 to 35years old. In this report, there will be a discussion about the issue of
depression among the targeted audience. 1 out of 4 Australian people, between the age group
of 18 to 35 years face the adverse condition of the mental illness (Cohen & DeRubeis, 2018).
According to various psychologist, this mental illness further classified into a mental
disorder, depression, anxiety, etc. The issue of depression is entirely related to the adverse
psychological condition but its adverse effect can cause harm at the physiology level of the
body too. In this report, there will be a discussion about the analysis of the health of the
targeted group, health status, health determinants, effectiveness and efficiency of the health
care workers to deal with this issue, etc.

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Analysis of health of the 18 to 35 years old Australian people in context with the
depression disease
According to the psychologist, there are various symptoms through which it can be
the judge that a person is suffering from depression or anxiety or any other mental illness.
Symptoms to analyse the condition of the depression are as follows: the hopeless outlook of
the person, lost internet in almost everything, increase fatigue, insomnia, irritability, adverse
change in appetite and difficulty in sleeping. These are the symptoms of depression.
However, these are only symptoms to judge the condition of depression in the person.
Different psychologist adopts different methods to analyse the condition of depression in the
person. The problem of the disease is entirely related and operates at the psychological level
but the adverse effect of this problem is even resultant in putting the adverse effect at the
physiological level. Apart from this, it is also analysed that negative overthinking is also the
cause of depression. When a person tends to think negatively then slowly his/her
subconscious mind starts adopting the negative aspects and their thinking pattern adopts the
negative perspective. In this case, it is always suggested to the person that they should read
self-development books to understand the functioning of the mind (Drysdale, et. al., 2017).
Depression has high lifetime pervasiveness - one out of seven Australians will
encounter sorrow in the course of their life. Depression has the third most elevated weight of
all maladies in Australia (13%) and furthermore third comprehensively. Weight of illness
alludes to the all-out effect of an ailment estimated by budgetary cost, mortality, grimness
and different markers. It is regularly communicated as a number of long periods of life lost
because of sick wellbeing, handicap or early passing. In addition to it, depression is the main
source of the non-deadly inability in Australia. This implies, by and large, individuals with
sorrow live with this incapacity for a higher number of years than individuals experiencing

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other non-lethal ailments, for example, hearing misfortune and dementia. The World Health
Organization evaluates that a downturn will be the main wellbeing worry in both the
developing and developed countries by 2030 (Haberler, 2017).
Analysis of the primary issues that are responsible for the depression between
the targeted group
Overthinking is the primary issue that puts the person into the condition of the
depression. When a person tends to overthink then slowly his/her get involved in the negative
aspects and it turns their perception into the negative aspects. Apart from this, the use of a
substance such as marijuana, heroin, paint thinner, etc. is also the prime reason that is
responsible for adverting affecting a thinking pattern of a person. It is been observed that
Australian youngsters are heavily involved in the usage of drugs. This affects their brain’s
chemistry and it affects their thinking pattern which resultant in causing a problem like
insomnia, etc (Robinson & Jorge, 2016).
Social, environmental and behavioural health determinants
From the social aspects, it is been observed that the youngsters in Australia have high
ambitions and they are even ready to work hard for fulfilling their ambitions but as time
grows and when they see that other people including their friends or relatives are getting
success at the early stage then it creates the form of jealously, self-hate, etc. in the person.
Later on, overthinking for such actions arisen the problem of anxiety, insomnia, depression
and other mental disorders. In this case, it is important for a person that they should not
develop such kind of feeling in themselves instead they should alter the methods to achieve
their goals. Apart from this, mental illness like depression also put an adverse effect on their
other health determinants (Skovlund, Mørch, Kessing & Lidegaard, 2016).

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Around one million adults in Australia live with depression every year. This disease
adversely affects both mental and physical wellbeing and is thought to add to and increment
the danger of comorbid incessant wellbeing conditions, for example, cardiovascular illness
and Type 2 Diabetes which thusly adds to the beginning of sadness. Epidemiological and
clinical investigations have indicated that ladies experience melancholy at altogether more
noteworthy numbers than men with differing predominance rates. Ladies are especially
powerless against encountering gloom in the time encompassing the introduction of a
youngster. Postnatal depression influences right around 16 percent of new moms. In addition,
the effect of sexual orientation jobs, family, and caring duties can affect on ladies' adapting
limits and the requests of misery related ailment. It is significant in this way, to build
information about depression among ladies, and to improve wellbeing administration
responsiveness towards the requirements of ladies living with, or in danger of creating
discouragement (Smith, et. al., 2018).
Availability of the certified psychologist in the country to cure depression
There are only 12,300 registered psychologists in the country. These psychologists
work in the regional, rural and city areas of the country. Although, by estimating this number
from the aspects of the targeted audience then the number of psychologists is low in the
country. However, if anyone wants to see the psychologist then there is the easy availability
to see them. In Australia, psychologist even provides online appointment to their patients. So,
it can be said that there is the easy availability of the psychologist but still the number is low
as compare to the size of the population (Wakefield, Horwitz & Lorenzo-Luaces, 2017).
On the other hand, there are various measures through which people can themselves
slow down the effect of depression such as staying away from the use of substance including
drugs and other chemicals that directly affects the functioning of the brain. Apart from this,

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psychologists first analyse the condition of the person by noticing their symptoms and by
conducting various other tests. After analysing their condition, the psychologist suggests
them few medications so that their disease can be cured early. Moreover, as already
mentioned in the above section that depression is entirely related to psychological disease
thus in this case counseling helps the person more than medications. In this context, it is also
analysed that various psychologists also incorporate the use of a placebo effect to treat the
patients in an effective and efficient way (Wakefield, Horwitz & Lorenzo-Luaces, 2017).
Recommendations
While suffering from the depression it is recommended that a person should read
books on the subconscious mind. By reading the books on the sub-conscious mind they will
get an idea about the functioning of the mind. Apart from this, it is also important that the
person should incorporate positive thoughts to slow down the effect of depression. As the fact
is that continuously thinking for the negative thought is the primary reason that people slow
get the disease like depression. In this context, thinking for positive thoughts is an effective
way that can cure depression. Now, positive thinking does not act immediately it requires
time to shape thinking of the person in the appropriate way (Skovlund, Mørch, Kessing &
Lidegaard, 2016).

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Conclusion
In this study, 18 to 35 years old Australian people are selected as the targeted
audience. It is concluded that the issue of depression is affecting young population of the
country in the adverse way. As the issue of depression is entirely related at the psychological
level but its effect put the physiological condition of the body in the negative state. In this
study, various recommendations are also suggested. Such as: incorporating positive thoughts,
reading self-development books, etc. Although, it is the fact that people are aware that they
should think for the positive thought but still they people tend to think for negative thoughts
more then the positive one.

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Haberler, G. (2017). Prosperity and depression: A theoretical analysis of cyclical movements.
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Robinson, R. G., & Jorge, R. E. (2016). Post-stroke depression: a review. American Journal
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Skovlund, C. W., Mørch, L. S., Kessing, L. V., & Lidegaard, Ø. (2016). Association of
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Smith, C. A., Armour, M., Lee, M. S., Wang, L. Q., & Hay, P. J. (2018). Acupuncture for
depression. Cochrane database of systematic reviews, 1(3), 89-98.
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