Depression is a condition that affects millions of people worldwide, but specialists remain divided as to how to treat it. Individuals experiencing depression suffer from severely negative moods that impact their everyday life and affect their ability to function. In order to treat depression, many useful medications have been developed. Medication is currently the best way for patients to fight against depression.
First of all, medication helps treat the cause of depression. To function properly, the brain requires naturally occurring chemicals. The most common cause of depression is a chemical imbalance in the brain of the patient. Abnormal levels of specific chemicals can have a dramatic effect on a person’s mood and can trigger depression in some cases. Treating these imbalances is the most important part of treating depression. The only treatment for these imbalances is medication.
Moreover, the medication for depression has proven effective in numerous cases. A number of these medications have been successfully used to treat depression for several years and have been an essential part of helping patients move beyond their condition. With the help of medication, thousands of patients are now able to live fulfilling lives despite their depression. While other forms of treatment have been proposed to treat depression, none have yet proven as effective as medication has.
Additionally, medication is typically easier for the patient to deal with than other forms of treatment such as therapy. The medications are usually taken once or twice per day and do not disrupt the patient’s day-to-day life. Maintaining a person’s regular schedule is an important part of dealing with depression. Patients that have to undergo disruptive treatments are less likely to recover from their depression in a timely manner.
The reading and the lecture both are about the methods of treating depression.
The author provides three reasons on why medication is the best treatment of depression.
The lecturer disputes the claims made in the article.
His position is that medication isn’t the answer to treating depression.
According to the reading, medication helps in treating the cause of depression.
The article mentions that chemical imbalance in the patient’s brain has been found to be the most common cause of depression.
This specific argument is challenged by the lecturer.
He claims that even though many doctors believe that chemical imbalance triggers depression, it isn’t true.
Additionally he points out that any negative experience can cause depression.
Secondly, the author mentions that medication has been successful in treating depression in patients.
The article also states that among all other treatments that have been proposed, medication has proven to be the most effective.
The lecturer, however points out that medication is used for treating chemical imbalance, and not depression.
He also says that medication is a short term solution, and wears off over time, leaving the patient in the same depressed state.
Finally the author states that medication is comparatively easier for patients to deal with, rather than treatments like therapy.
It helps patients maintain a regular schedule, which is important for their recovery in a timely manner.
In contrast the lecturer’s statement is that therapy is better than medication, as the latter’s side effects are disruptive.
He says that as medication affects sleep cycle, appetite and many other things we aren’t aware of yet, it isn’t the best method of treatment.
- Depression is a condition that affects millions of people worldwide but specialists remain divided as to how to treat it Individuals experiencing depression suffer from severely negative moods that impact their everyday life and affect their ability to fu 3
- Depression is a condition that affects millions of people worldwide but specialists remain divided as to how to treat it Individuals experiencing depression suffer from severely negative moods that impact their everyday life and affect their ability to fu 3
Comments
Essay evaluations by e-grader
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 3, column 1, Rule ID: ENGLISH_WORD_REPEAT_BEGINNING_RULE
Message: Three successive sentences begin with the same word. Reword the sentence or use a thesaurus to find a synonym.
...n is the best treatment of depression. The lecturer disputes the claims made in th...
^^^
Line 10, column 1, Rule ID: SENT_START_CONJUNCTIVE_LINKING_ADVERB_COMMA[1]
Message: Did you forget a comma after a conjunctive/linking adverb?
Suggestion: Additionally,
...ce triggers depression, it isn’t true. Additionally he points out that any negative experie...
^^^^^^^^^^^^
Line 17, column 1, Rule ID: SENT_START_CONJUNCTIVE_LINKING_ADVERB_COMMA[1]
Message: Did you forget a comma after a conjunctive/linking adverb?
Suggestion: Finally,
...patient in the same depressed state. Finally the author states that medication is co...
^^^^^^^
Line 18, column 86, Rule ID: IN_A_X_MANNER[1]
Message: Consider replacing "in a timely manner" with adverb for "timely"; eg, "in a hasty manner" with "hastily".
..., which is important for their recovery in a timely manner. In contrast the lecturer’s statement ...
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Line 19, column 4, Rule ID: SENT_START_CONJUNCTIVE_LINKING_ADVERB_COMMA[2]
Message: Did you forget a comma after a conjunctive/linking adverb?
Suggestion: contrast,
... their recovery in a timely manner. In contrast the lecturer’s statement is that therap...
^^^^^^^^
Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, finally, however, if, second, secondly, so, in contrast
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 16.0 10.4613686534 153% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 1.0 5.04856512141 20% => OK
Conjunction : 5.0 7.30242825607 68% => OK
Relative clauses : 14.0 12.0772626932 116% => OK
Pronoun: 24.0 22.412803532 107% => OK
Preposition: 29.0 30.3222958057 96% => OK
Nominalization: 20.0 5.01324503311 399% => Less nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1498.0 1373.03311258 109% => OK
No of words: 269.0 270.72406181 99% => OK
Chars per words: 5.5687732342 5.08290768461 110% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.0498419064 4.04702891845 100% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.86857839389 2.5805825403 111% => OK
Unique words: 147.0 145.348785872 101% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.546468401487 0.540411800872 101% => OK
syllable_count: 439.2 419.366225166 105% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.55342163355 103% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 8.0 3.25607064018 246% => Less pronouns wanted as sentence beginning.
Article: 7.0 8.23620309051 85% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 1.25165562914 80% => OK
Conjunction: 2.0 1.51434878587 132% => OK
Preposition: 2.0 2.5761589404 78% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 17.0 13.0662251656 130% => OK
Sentence length: 15.0 21.2450331126 71% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 27.452759046 49.2860985944 56% => The essay contains lots of sentences with the similar length. More sentence varieties wanted.
Chars per sentence: 88.1176470588 110.228320801 80% => OK
Words per sentence: 15.8235294118 21.698381199 73% => OK
Discourse Markers: 3.58823529412 7.06452816374 51% => More transition words/phrases wanted.
Paragraphs: 17.0 4.09492273731 415% => Less paragraphs wanted.
Language errors: 5.0 4.19205298013 119% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 8.0 4.33554083885 185% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 9.0 4.45695364238 202% => Less negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 0.0 4.27373068433 0% => More facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.0663639748169 0.272083759551 24% => The similarity between the topic and the content is low.
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0235835259418 0.0996497079465 24% => Sentence topic similarity is low.
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0266554228446 0.0662205650399 40% => Sentences are similar to each other.
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0235835259418 0.162205337803 15% => Maybe some paragraphs are off the topic.
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0266554228446 0.0443174109184 60% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 12.7 13.3589403974 95% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 56.25 53.8541721854 104% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 5.55761589404 56% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 9.1 11.0289183223 83% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 14.73 12.2367328918 120% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.49 8.42419426049 101% => OK
difficult_words: 70.0 63.6247240618 110% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 5.5 10.7273730684 51% => Linsear_write_formula is low.
gunning_fog: 8.0 10.498013245 76% => OK
text_standard: 8.0 11.2008830022 71% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Maximum four paragraphs wanted.
It is not exactly right on the topic in the view of e-grader. Maybe there is a wrong essay topic.
Rates: 3.33333333333 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 1.0 Out of 30
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Note: the e-grader does NOT examine the meaning of words and ideas. VIP users will receive further evaluations by advanced module of e-grader and human graders.
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 3, column 1, Rule ID: ENGLISH_WORD_REPEAT_BEGINNING_RULE
Message: Three successive sentences begin with the same word. Reword the sentence or use a thesaurus to find a synonym.
...n is the best treatment of depression. The lecturer disputes the claims made in th...
^^^
Line 10, column 1, Rule ID: SENT_START_CONJUNCTIVE_LINKING_ADVERB_COMMA[1]
Message: Did you forget a comma after a conjunctive/linking adverb?
Suggestion: Additionally,
...ce triggers depression, it isn’t true. Additionally he points out that any negative experie...
^^^^^^^^^^^^
Line 17, column 1, Rule ID: SENT_START_CONJUNCTIVE_LINKING_ADVERB_COMMA[1]
Message: Did you forget a comma after a conjunctive/linking adverb?
Suggestion: Finally,
...patient in the same depressed state. Finally the author states that medication is co...
^^^^^^^
Line 18, column 86, Rule ID: IN_A_X_MANNER[1]
Message: Consider replacing "in a timely manner" with adverb for "timely"; eg, "in a hasty manner" with "hastily".
..., which is important for their recovery in a timely manner. In contrast the lecturer’s statement ...
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Line 19, column 4, Rule ID: SENT_START_CONJUNCTIVE_LINKING_ADVERB_COMMA[2]
Message: Did you forget a comma after a conjunctive/linking adverb?
Suggestion: contrast,
... their recovery in a timely manner. In contrast the lecturer’s statement is that therap...
^^^^^^^^
Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, finally, however, if, second, secondly, so, in contrast
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 16.0 10.4613686534 153% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 1.0 5.04856512141 20% => OK
Conjunction : 5.0 7.30242825607 68% => OK
Relative clauses : 14.0 12.0772626932 116% => OK
Pronoun: 24.0 22.412803532 107% => OK
Preposition: 29.0 30.3222958057 96% => OK
Nominalization: 20.0 5.01324503311 399% => Less nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1498.0 1373.03311258 109% => OK
No of words: 269.0 270.72406181 99% => OK
Chars per words: 5.5687732342 5.08290768461 110% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.0498419064 4.04702891845 100% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.86857839389 2.5805825403 111% => OK
Unique words: 147.0 145.348785872 101% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.546468401487 0.540411800872 101% => OK
syllable_count: 439.2 419.366225166 105% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.55342163355 103% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 8.0 3.25607064018 246% => Less pronouns wanted as sentence beginning.
Article: 7.0 8.23620309051 85% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 1.25165562914 80% => OK
Conjunction: 2.0 1.51434878587 132% => OK
Preposition: 2.0 2.5761589404 78% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 17.0 13.0662251656 130% => OK
Sentence length: 15.0 21.2450331126 71% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 27.452759046 49.2860985944 56% => The essay contains lots of sentences with the similar length. More sentence varieties wanted.
Chars per sentence: 88.1176470588 110.228320801 80% => OK
Words per sentence: 15.8235294118 21.698381199 73% => OK
Discourse Markers: 3.58823529412 7.06452816374 51% => More transition words/phrases wanted.
Paragraphs: 17.0 4.09492273731 415% => Less paragraphs wanted.
Language errors: 5.0 4.19205298013 119% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 8.0 4.33554083885 185% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 9.0 4.45695364238 202% => Less negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 0.0 4.27373068433 0% => More facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.0663639748169 0.272083759551 24% => The similarity between the topic and the content is low.
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0235835259418 0.0996497079465 24% => Sentence topic similarity is low.
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0266554228446 0.0662205650399 40% => Sentences are similar to each other.
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0235835259418 0.162205337803 15% => Maybe some paragraphs are off the topic.
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0266554228446 0.0443174109184 60% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 12.7 13.3589403974 95% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 56.25 53.8541721854 104% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 5.55761589404 56% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 9.1 11.0289183223 83% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 14.73 12.2367328918 120% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.49 8.42419426049 101% => OK
difficult_words: 70.0 63.6247240618 110% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 5.5 10.7273730684 51% => Linsear_write_formula is low.
gunning_fog: 8.0 10.498013245 76% => OK
text_standard: 8.0 11.2008830022 71% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Maximum four paragraphs wanted.
It is not exactly right on the topic in the view of e-grader. Maybe there is a wrong essay topic.
Rates: 3.33333333333 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 1.0 Out of 30
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Note: the e-grader does NOT examine the meaning of words and ideas. VIP users will receive further evaluations by advanced module of e-grader and human graders.