{"id":2738,"date":"2016-04-19T09:13:11","date_gmt":"2016-04-19T08:13:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ounews.co\/?p=2738"},"modified":"2016-04-19T09:13:11","modified_gmt":"2016-04-19T08:13:11","slug":"depression-language-use-affect-others","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/news\/education-languages-health\/depression-language-use-affect-others\/","title":{"rendered":"How does the language you use affect others?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Stress &#8211; the focus of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mentalhealth.org.uk\/campaigns\/mental-health-awareness-week\">Mental Health Awareness Week<\/a> &#8211; is a key factor in mental health, including anxiety and depression.<\/p>\n<p>How we talk about depression can have unintended consequences, says Dr Zsofia Demjen, a lecturer in English language and applied linguistics. Using phrases like \u201cI\u2019m so depressed\u201d runs the risk of normalising serious issues like depression and might prevent people from getting the help they really need. But the idea is not to police people\u2019s language, she says\u2026<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/youtu.be\/5qG2OJLRwa8<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2>Find out more<\/h2>\n<p>You can read more about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.open.edu\/openlearn\/languages\/more-languages\/linguistics\/i-was-so-depressed-yesterday-or-were-you\">language relating to mental health on OpenLearn<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Complete our <a href=\"http:\/\/www.open.edu\/openlearn\/health-sports-psychology\/health\/understanding-depression-and-anxiety\/content-section-0?active-tab=description-tab\">free course about depression and anxiety<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Stress &#8211; the focus of Mental Health Awareness Week &#8211; is a key factor in mental health, including anxiety and depression. How we talk about depression can have unintended consequences, says Dr Zsofia Demjen, a lecturer in English language and applied linguistics. Using phrases like \u201cI\u2019m so depressed\u201d runs the risk of normalising serious issues [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2741,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"video","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[606,1275,1326,1415,2479],"class_list":["post-2738","post","type-post","status-publish","format-video","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-education-languages-health","tag-depression-awareness-week","tag-languages","tag-linguistics","tag-mental-health","tag-zsofia-demjen","post_format-post-format-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2738","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2738"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2738\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2741"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2738"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2738"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2738"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}