People with depression often suffer from severe social seclusion, and the lack of an agreed
upon etiology for depression makes it difficult to satisfactorily narrate and “ritually control” it …

This work analyzes the conceptual metaphors of depression in a corpus of 23 blogs written
in Catalan by people suffering major depressive disorder. Its main aim was comparative, in …

Depression is regularly declared to be equivalent to a bodily illness, yet critics have long
contested this 'medical'view of mental disorders. Following the ideas of Szasz and Foucault …

Many researchers within the social sciences, medicine, and humanities have examined the
ways people talk and think about depression. In their research and published literature they …

COVID-19 has become a mental health pandemic. The impact on vulnerable demographic
groups has been particularly severe. This paper focuses on women in employment in Hong …

Background Depression raises a double challenge: besides the negative mood and the
intrusive thoughts, the relation to the self also becomes difficult. Online forums are analysed …

This article will explore how metaphors of motherhood are used by contemporary female
bloggers who are affiliated with certain faith groups. Within religious contexts especially …

Health research highlights transformative and therapeutic effects of peer-to-peer online
communication. Yet, we still know little about the practices and processes that generate such …

Autobiographical accounts on social media could play an essential role in shaping the
public's understanding of illnesses and dispelling illness-related stigma. This study …

Drawing on observations of a Chinese online depression community, this article explored
the members' sense making of depression by analyzing their narrative accounts of …