Multiple choice

Directions: Read the passages carefully and complete the statement given underneath by choosing the appropriate option from the following.

Real-depression cannot be as easily overcome as some people often suppose. It usually passes with time - but the time can seem endless. Activities giving companionship and a new interest can help. But for the sufferer to talk, again and again, about the causes of the depression helps most. People with depression need to be listened tao and encouraged to find their own solutions, not made to feel yet more inadequate by good advice. They may need professional counselling as well as the support of family and friends.

The writer suggests that people with depression ___________.

  1. should not be allowed much social activity

  2. should rely solely on professional counselling

  3. need, more than anything else, someone to listen to them

  4. ought to remain alienated from society for a long time

  5. receive an unnecessary amount of sympathy
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
C Correct answer
Explanation

   But for the sufferer to talk, again and again, about the causes of the depression helps most

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