Bring this essay to Thursday's lesson if you haven't already given it in.
You won't be asked specifically about depression or schizophrenia in the exam, but it's useful to have some specific examples to illustrate your answer with. It's worth knowing for example that a popular group of anti-depressant drugs are known as SSRIs (selective serotonin re-uptake inhibitors) and that these work by boosting the levels of serotonin (a neurotransmitter associated with mood, amongst other things) by slowing the rate at which nerve cells re-absorb it.
Drug therapy is the only therapy that really helps with schizophrenia (which is something good to say about it) but it's far from an ideal treatment, only really helping with some of the symptoms and producing nasty side effects. For some people, drug treatment for depression appears to be a complete cure, but not for others, and some psychologists criticise the 'medicalisation' of depression.
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