Youth Depression and Anxiety Doubled During The Pandemic: Recent Episodes
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From the news, we can know that the pandemic created conditions that might have exacerbated these negative feelings. With school closures and remote learning, children experienced the loss of peer interactions, greater social isolation, and less interaction with other supportive adults like teachers and coaches. These changes may have contributed to increased symptoms of depression, such as feelings of sadness, loss of interest in activities, and disruption to appetite and sleep, according to the study.
Peppa Pig is a cartoon series with the main character a pig named Peppa. The series, which started its first episode in 2004, originates from the United Kingdom, so it is not surprising that the characters in this series speak using a fairly thick British accent. Because this series is aimed at children, the plot in each episode is quite simple and easy to understand. In addition, the characters speak with clear pronunciation, so that it can make it easier for children to learn how to pronounce a word.
There once was a mouse that had not eaten in days. He had become really thin. After a lot of searching, the mouse found a basket full of corn. There was a tiny hole in the basket and he squeezed through. So, he crept into the basket and ate his fill of corn. However, he did not stop eating even when he was full. The mouse ate more and more. Now, the mouse had grown larger from all that food and could no longer fit through the hole to get out. He was worried and wondered how to escape. A rat that was passing by heard the mouse and told him that he had to wait until he had grown thin again in order to get out. The mouse regretted being greedy and overeating.
I got a lot of experience after reading and watching children's cartoons in English. The first thing is that I find vocabularies that I don't understand the meaning of, then I look for their meanings and make sentences using those vocabularies. And lastly, I practice these vocabularies in everyday life, from there I can remember the meaning of these vocabularies and understand if there are other sentences that use these vocabularies.
JOURNAL WEEK 15
Broadly speaking, the song "Here's Your Perfect" describes the feeling of trying to be okay in the midst of the pain of loss. Not intending to lie to yourself, but to accept wisely the reality you are facing. What Miller specifically means in this song is letting go of someone who is not meant to be with us. Jamie Miller himself through his song describes a good reception as a result of the wounds he endured. Obviously his heart wasn't fine. It is reflected in the lyrics of the first and second stanzas of the song, where he still always rings with the name of his lover. But despite his hurt, Miller insists that it's okay to feel hurt. It's okay to feel lost and have pain. He could come to terms with reality.
This “10000 hours” song is filled with figurative poetic words, which can't necessarily be interpreted word-by-word separately. If you look at the overall lyrics of the song, which seems to appear romantic, it turns out that the song 10000 has a story or meaning as an expression of a desire to find out about all the good and bad things from the person he loves, even though it takes a very long time which is likened to the time for 10000 hours long or even up to 1 year longer or even up to the remaining age. During that time, it's not just to get to know him but to always show love and commitment and affection to his lover, even to the last of his age. A romance that needs to be remembered, that a difference that exists, cannot be united and understood in an instant, but continues to learn together to know and love during our lives.
After hearing the songs "Here's Your Perfect" and "10000 Hours" I learned some vocabulary I didn't understand. Translate the meaning and make sentences from the vocabulary. After that I practice using the vocabulary. The benefits I get include understanding the meaning of these vocabularies, being able to pronounce the pronunciation correctly and being able to better understand other sentences containing these vocabularies.
JOURNAL WEEK 14
We live in a world beating with urgency breathing with difficulty breaking under necessity. We are a society consumed by technology compact in proximitychoked by inactivity.We are global, we are responsible, we are trending, we are too inactive, everyone, everywhere, every day, we have a plan. It's time to activate our governments, to activate our environments to activate our society to activate ourselves. It's time to activate movement to activate improvement to reverse our direction to activate new trends we need to alertyou. We need to activate everyone everywhere every day.
What do humans need to stay healthy? Your body can do all kinds of things, but to keep it working at its best you need to look after it by staying healthy. Being healthy helps make sure you feel good and means you're less likely to get sick. It helps you do more fun activities and it may help you live longer too. So what can you do to be healthy well? You can eat a good balance of all kinds of food including plenty of fresh vegetables and fruits, you can drink lots of water, and you can do lots of exercise, to make your body stronger and fitter. Another way of staying healthy is good hygiene which means keeping clean and washing off germs that can make you or other people ill. Some germs like to travel on your skin, some will travel through the earth, others prefer dirty surfaces. But simple things like washing your hands before you eat and after you use the toilet will help stop germs getting inside you and making you ill. Last, all of you need plenty of sleep because this is when your body recovers and grows so you can do even more tomorrow.
My experience when using these vocabularies in daily life is quite difficult. A lot of vocabulary is difficult to pronounce correctly. Sometimes I forget a little how to pronounce the vocabulary correctly. But over time I was able to pronounce it correctly and remember what it meant.
THE CROOKED TREE
It was a dense forest. All trees were straight and tall. Their trunks were broad and shapely. But, there was one tree which was having a crooked and shapeless trunk. The crooked trunk tree was sad. He thought “How ugly I am! All others are straight and shapely. I alone have crooked trunk.” One day a wood-cutter came there. He looked around and said “I will cut all trees here, except that crooked tree. That is of no use to me”. He cut away all other trees. Now, the crooked tree was happy for its crookedness.
THE ANT AND THE GRASSHOPPER
A grasshopper spent the summer singing and idling away his time. Meanwhile, his neighbors, a colony of ants, worked hard throughout the summer to store food for the winter. The grasshopper laughed at the ants and told them that they should enjoy the summer. The ants told the grasshopper that he should store food for the winter or he will starve when everything is frozen. When winter comes, the ants were in their nest, resting and surviving on the food that they had stored. The grasshopper came to their door, hungry and cold. He begged the ants for food and says he realized the error of his ways. The ants shared their food with him and made him promise to work hard next summer to gather and store food.
In the children's stories and cartoons in English that I read and watch, there are various kinds of moral messages. However, I found it a little difficult to understand some of the vocabulary. After finding out the meaning of all difficult vocabulary and practicing using the vocabulary in daily life, I had an interesting experience. Among them, I became able to understand the meaning of the vocabulary and better understand some sentences that use the vocabulary. And can say the vocabulary with the correct pronunciation.
Luthvia : Hello Aleyda, how are you?
Aleyda : Hii Luthvia, I'm fine, how about u?
Luthvia : I'm fine too, by the way have you been vaccinated yet?
Aleyda : Already twice, how about you?
Luthvia : I've also had the vaccine, but this is just the first vaccine
Aleyda : Did you know about the news that there will be face-to-face learning soon?
Luthvia : Yes, I heard about it too, but I don't know when it will be implemented, do you know?
Aleyda : As far as I know, face-to-face learning is currently aimed at students in their third semester.
Luthvia : Yes, you are right Al, as far as I know, to participate in face-to-face learning requires many requirements, do you know what the requirements are?
Aleyda : The information I got from seniors I know, you must have been vaccinated twice and get an official vaccine certificate from the government. Then fill out and sign a letter of approval to attend face-to-face lectures
Luthvia : Oh, it turned out so. Thank you so much for telling me Al
Aleyda : You're welcome Luthvia
After recording a conversation with one of my friends and uploading it on spotify, I had some fun experiences. Some of those experiences include: I can talk to my friend using English to practice my English skills; being able to practice listening and translating English sentences delivered by my friend without a translator; can exchange stories with my friend; and if there is a word that I do not understand, I will look up the meaning in the dictionary.
Many things happened after I practiced using these vocabs in my daily life. One of them is that I will unconsciously speak using the vocab and even say English sentences using the vocab spontaneously. Even when I never thought of that sentence before. All these experiences taught me how to improve my English skills in an interesting way. So that my English skills improved from previous journals without feeling that this method is part of learning in class.
“RECKLESS” AND “HEATHER”
The song "Reckless" is a western song sung by Madison Beer. Carrying a powerful ballad, Reckless tells the story of a woman's heartbreak when she finds out that her beloved partner treats her badly, including having a relationship with another woman, regardless of her feelings. "Reckless is about how easy it is for some people in relationships to hurt others and go on living guilt-free," says Madison Beer.
The song "Heather" is a song composed and sung by Conan Lee Gray. This song tells about how we who are not perfect like someone who also likes other people, moreover this other person has a near perfect face. This song can also be shown to someone who is always the second choice because our appearance is not as beautiful as the main character, as Conan said earlier.
After underlining the unknown vocabulary, looking for its meaning, and making sentences with it, I use the vocabulary in my daily life. After using these vocabularies, I became more aware of the meaning of the song and at the same time understood some of the sentences that used those vocabularies.
DEPRESSION
Depression is the largest cause of disability worldwide. At worst depression can lead to suicide. In humanitarian emergencies, one in five people are affected by depression and anxiety. Depression and anxiety lead to a global economic loss of 1 trillion US dollars per year. On average, just 3% of government health budgets is invested in mental health. Depression can be prevented and treated at relatively low cost treatment. Usually involves talking therapy or antidepressant medication or both. If you think you have depression, talk to someone you trust seek professional help depression.
If the black dog of depression makes you feel like the saddest soul on earth, you are not alone. Around 350 million people share this debilitatingbut treatable condition. If you’re worried about someone, ask if they’re okay. If you’re not doing so well yourself, ask for help. There is no shame in doing so, the only shame is missing out on life. So get help. Be helped and always hold onto hope.
My experience when using these vocabularies in daily life is quite difficult. A lot of vocabulary is difficult to pronounce correctly. Sometimes I forget a little how to pronounce the vocabulary correctly. But over time I was able to pronounce it correctly and remember what it meant.
A WISE OLD OWL
There was an old owl that lived in an oak tree. Every day, he saw incidents happening around him. Yesterday, he saw a boy helping an old man to carry a heavy basket. Today he saw a girl shouting at her mother. The more he saw, the less he spoke. As he spoke less, he heard more. He heard people talking and telling stories. He heard a woman saying that an elephant jumped over a fence. He also heard a man saying that he had never made a mistake. The old owl had seen and heard about what happened to people. Some became better and some became worse. But the old owl had become wiser each and every day.
THE GREEDY LION
It was an incredibly hot day, and a lion was feeling very hungry. He came out of his denand searched here and there. He could find only a small hare. He caught the hare with some hesitation. “This hare can’t fill my stomach,” thought the lion. As the lion was about to kill the hare, a deer ran that way. The lion became greedy. He thought that it is better to eat the big deer rather than the small hare. He let the hare go and went behind the deer. But the deer had vanished into the forest. The lion now felt sorry for letting the hare off.
My experience after practicing vocabulary in everyday life is that I understand and know the meaning of some vocabularies, can better understand the meaning of some of the new vocabularies contained in the children's stories and become a little more fluent in speaking English than previous journals.
Dialog
Luthvia : Hello Aleyda, how are you? It's been a while since we last chatted with each other.
Aleyda : Hi Luthvia, I'm fine. How about you? Yes, you are right, maybe because mid test and our organization have been a little busy lately.
Luthvia : I'm good Aleyda, oh you've started to be active in the organization, apparently. I haven't even joined any organization yet.
Aleyda : Yes, several organizations that I join have started conducting registration interviews and some have even entered an orientation period. Why haven't you joined the organization yet?
Luthvia : I don't know what organization to join in our campus. How do you choose the organization you belong to? I'm afraid that the organization will make it difficult for me to attend lectures.
Aleyda : Don't be afraid Luthvia, I will give you advice on how to choose a good organization. The first is to find an organization that suits your hobbies, choose an organization that suits your abilities, you have to choose an organization of your own accord, not just because you follow friends, make sure the organization you follow is useful, you should choose an organization that can support your studies.
Luthvia : Wow, that's how it is, thank you very much Aleyda for the advice you have given. I will use your advice to choose a good organization
Aleyda : You're welcome Luthvia, I hope you can find a good organization. Have a nice day
Luthvia : Have a nice day too
After recording a conversation with one of my friends and uploading it on spotify, I had some fun experiences. Some of those experiences include: I can talk to my friend using English to practice my English skills; being able to practice listening and translating English sentences delivered by my friend without a translator; can exchange stories with my friend; and if there is a word that I do not understand, I will look up the meaning in the dictionary.
Many things happened after I practiced using these vocabs in my daily life. One of them is that I will unconsciously speak using the vocab and even say English sentences using the vocab spontaneously. Even when I never thought of that sentence before. All these experiences taught me how to improve my English skills in an interesting way. So that my English skills have increased from the fourth journal without feeling that this method is a part of learning in class.
Broadly speaking, the song "At My Worst" tells or means about a man who wants to commit and affirm his loyalty to his lover. Therefore, the singer Pink Sweat then asked his girlfriend to stay with him, even when things were down. So, in this song Pink Sweat wants to explain that the person who truly loves us, is the person who can accept the worst part of us, as it is, without any conditions.
The song Perfect tells the story of a man who likes a woman, where the woman is his friend since childhood. He had feelings for her until he grew up, although now he is still a friend. Until the time when he was determined, and prepared to express his feelings to the woman. This is where he knows everything, where the woman he has loved since childhood turns out to have the same feeling for him. The meaning of this Perfect song is that the woman also fell in love with him, but because in childhood they both did not understand what love was, the woman could only be silent and harbored it, so did the man. As an adult, the woman was actually waiting for the expression of her feelings from her husband and sure enough, it came true. The two of them then determined to start upholding their commitment, namely being faithful to each other in living love, and living together forever.
My experience after practicing vocabulary in daily life is that I understand and know the meaning of some vocabulary, can better understand the meaning of the songs and become a little more fluent in speaking English from the second journal.
JOURNAL WEEK 6
Eating less salt saves lives, but many people in the WHO European Region find it difficult to change their diets. On the occasion of Salt Awareness Week 2021, WHO/Europe shares the experience of Dr Joana Ferreira, who is helping her patients in Portugal find healthier alternatives for processed or traditional foods to reduce their salt intake.
Reducing salt in our diets is a vital step in reducing the risk of developing raised blood pressure; associated cardiovascular diseases such as stroke, heart failure and heart disease; and chronic kidney disease.
Health workers can play a critical role by educating patients and raising awareness of the dangers of excessive salt consumption. Clear guidance can empower people to take control and reduce salt in their diets by changing their salt-adding behaviours and choosing less salty foods.
A core priority of the European Programme of Work 2020–2025 – “United Action for Better Health in Europe” is ensuring health and well-being for all at all ages, which is supported by lower salt consumption.
My experience when using these vocabularies in daily life is quite difficult. A lot of vocabulary is difficult to pronounce correctly. Sometimes I forget a little how to pronounce the vocabulary correctly. But over time I was able to pronounce it correctly and remember what it meant.
Here is our dialog :
Luthvia : Hi Aleyda, how are you? It's been a long time we haven't exchanged news because we have a lot of work
Aleyda : Hi Luthvia, I'm fine, how about you?. Nice to talk to you again. You're right, we have quite a lot of classwork lately, so we rarely exchange news.
Luthvia : I'm fine too. By the way, have you done your English assignment?
Aleyda : English assignment? Which assignment is it?
Luthvia : English assignment for this week. The assignment that was just uploaded on Elena yesterday
Aleyda : Oh that English assignment. I haven't done it yet. I was just about to do it tomorrow
Luthvia : I haven't done it either. How about we do it together?
Aleyda : Sure, great idea. How about we do it at my house tomorrow at 9?
Luthvia : Agree. See you tomorrow at your house at 9. Should I bring some snacks?
Aleyda : Sure, if you don't mind. See you tomorrow, Luthvia. Let me know when you reach my house
Luthivia : Okay Aleyda, see you tomorrow
After recording a conversation with one of my friends and uploading it on spotify, I had some fun experiences. Some of those experiences include: I can talk to my friend using English to practice my English skills; being able to practice listening and translating English sentences delivered by my friend without a translator; can exchange stories with my friend; and if there is a word that I do not understand, I will look up the meaning in the dictionary.
Many things happened after I practiced using these vocabs in my daily life. One of them is that I will unconsciously speak using the vocab and even say English sentences using the vocab spontaneously. Even when I never thought of that sentence before. All these experiences taught me how to improve my English skills in an interesting way. So that my English skills have increased from the fourth journal without feeling that this method is a part of learning in class.
THE WISE MAN
People have been coming to the wise man, complaining about the same problems every time. One day he told them a joke and everyone roared in laughter. After a couple of minutes, he told them the same joke and only a few of them smiled. When he told the same joke for the third time no one laughed anymore. The wise man smiled and said, “You can’t laugh at the same joke over and over. So why are you always crying about the same problem?”
THE HARE AND THE TORTOISE
Once, a hare saw a tortoise walking slowly with a heavy shell on his back. The hare was very proud of himself and he asked the tortoise. “Shall we have a race?”. The tortoise agreed. They started the running race. The hare ran very fast. But the tortoise walked very slowly. The proud hare thinks that he already won, so he rested under a tree and soon slept off. But the tortoise keeps walking slowly and steadily until he finally reached the goal. At last, the tortoise won the race.
My experience after practicing vocabulary in everyday life is that I understand and know the meaning of some vocabularies, can better understand the meaning of some of the new vocabularies contained in the children's stories and become a little more fluent in speaking English than previous journals.
“Dynamite” is a Disco Pop single that sings of joy and confidence, bringing a new surge of much-needed ‘energy’ to reinvigorate the global community. In this song, the global superstars find happiness by doing again what they do best: engaging in a perpetual cycle of giving and receiving joy with the world through music and performances. It also marks BTS’ first song to be released completely in English; having sought a “breakthrough” to overcome a sense of disheartenment from within the new global climate, BTS embarks on a new challenge through “Dynamite.”
“Permission to Dance” is BTS' third song in English after “Dynamite” and “Butter.” Through this song, BTS seems to invite everyone to say goodbye to Covid-19 and invite everyone to be happy again after facing dark days during the pandemic. Permission to Dance has very nice and touching lyrics. In this energetic song, the BTS members invite everyone to continue to be optimistic in the midst of a pandemic that is still engulfing most of the world. They seem to invite all listeners to relieve anxiety by dancing, because everyone does not need permission to dance.
My experience after practicing vocabulary in daily life is that I understand and know the meaning of some vocabulary, can better understand the meaning of the songs and become a little more fluent in speaking English from the second journal.2
From the news, we can know that the pandemic created conditions that might have exacerbated these negative feelings. With school closures and remote learning, children experienced the loss of peer interactions, greater social isolation, and less interaction with other supportive adults like teachers and coaches. These changes may have contributed to increased symptoms of depression, such as feelings of sadness, loss of interest in activities, and disruption to appetite and sleep, according to the study.
Additionally, the general uncertainty and disruptions of daily routines caused by the pandemic likely increased symptoms of generalized anxiety in youth, including fear, uncontrollable worry and hyperarousal, the study noted. Worry for the health of family and friends as Covid-19 spread also likely contributed to children's heightened anxiety, according to the research.
From the news, we can also get some new vocabs. When I practice using the vocab in my daily life, my parents and sister are surprised and often laugh at me because they don't understand the meaning. Not infrequently they also scolded me for being noisy. But behind it all, I understood and remembered the vocab I got from the news and became a little more fluent in English.