Grandama's Memories of the Great Depression

The Great Depression began in October 1929, and American stock prices fell rapidly. Thousands of shareholders have lost a lot of money. Many people have to rely on governments or charitable organizations to get food. Many of the stories about the Great Depression tell of the plight of big cities and their poor lives after adapting to the luxury lifestyle. However, these statements do not reflect the true damage caused by this economic downturn.

People with depression are difficult to change from general memory to specific memories. Several studies show that people who are depressed are less memory and more general than people who are not depressed. This is called memory over-generalization and is considered to be one of the most characteristic features of memory in depressed patients (Ramırez, Ortega, Chamorro, & Colmenero, 2014). From the perspective of social work, life review therapy can be used for intervention. Life review therapy is a technique that helps people search and organize memories and has been successfully used to improve the depression of elderly people. Life review therapy is based on positive memories of specific events. The program involves asking the elderly for a series of direct questions about specific events.

Nostalgia is not a simple metaphor but a powerful medicine. Recent academic research on past memories suggests that "nostalgic therapy" may have great expectations for treatment of anxiety and depression. Indeed, the story of survivors of the Holocaust and survivors of other devastating circumstances proves the healing power of the warm and calm fantasy age - imagining making the current situation more affordable please. However, like many medicines we have had in difficult times, nostalgia seems to have that dark side. Indeed, looking at the cultural landscape of the Western world, it is easy to suggest that we are in the midst of a poisoning crisis. Unlike the human beings that have seen since the invention after printing changed in medieval Europe, the sarcasm of the present era, despite information technology and media revolution, our pop culture has changed little That is not it.