Depression And Technology

Affecting around 15 million American women, men and children, depression has unfortunately become one of the world’s most easily recognized mood disorders. While the development of depression can occur around any age, the median age for depression is around the age of 32 years old. Statistically proven that women are in fact more susceptible to depression than men, some have developed clinics specifically for women struggling with depression. Another shocking statistic is the fact that one in thirty-three children have been diagnosed with clinical depression, while a jaw dropping one in eight adolescents have been diagnosed with the deadly disorder.

Along with the increasing amounts of people being diagnosed with depression also comes the increase in the amount of suicides, suicide attempts along with suicidal thoughts and the potential development of a completely new disorder. While counseling and medication are often times prescribed to suffice the terrifying symptoms, many suggest and imply that it simply does not work. With the steadily rising number of adolescents being diagnosed with depression, students have come up with an alternate, surprising solution to the social problem. In my opinion, the development and production of Wiretap headphones will help guide young adults to a positive alternative.

Wiretap, presented as a form of stylish headphones, is designed to detect dangerous brain activity and react to it with accuracy by playing music to help stop certain brain waves. Accompanied with Bluetooth, Wiretap can connect to your phone so it can have access to important contacts in case of an emergency. In other words, if a person is going through a depression relapse and puts on the headphones, music is ideally played to get them out of that state of mind; after this process, Wiretap is supposed to send a message to the person’s phone to ask if they are ok. If there is no response within fifteen minutes, the emergency contacts will receive a message.