We review knowledge concerning public presentations for depression. These presentations impact illness beliefs and may influence public stigma, self-stigma, and depression literacy. We provide a critical review of messages, images, and information concerning depression's causes, continuum conceptualization, timeline, curability, coping/treatment regimen, and strengths. To provide data regarding the prevalence of particular presentations, we conducted a content analysis of 327 videos about depression representative of material on the YouTube social media platform. YouTube presentations of depression indicate that depression: 1) is caused by either biological (49.5%) or environmental (41.3%) factors; 2) is a categorical construct (71%); 3) is treatable, with 61% of relevant videos (n = 249) presenting recovery as “likely”; 4) is chronic, found in 76% of videos mentioning timeline; 5) is recurrent (32.5%); 6) is mostly treated via medication (47.4%) or therapy (42.8%), although diet/exercise (28.4%) and alternative treatments (22.6%) are commonly endorsed; and 7) is rarely associated with strength (15.3%). Nearly one-third of videos were uploaded by non-professional vloggers, while just 9% were uploaded by mental health organizations. We discuss how these presentations may influence stigmatizing attitudes and depression literacy among people with and without depression and suggest future research directions to better understand how to optimize public presentations.

我们审查有关抑郁症的公开演讲的知识。这些陈述影响疾病信念，并可能影响公众的污名，自我污名和抑郁素养。我们对有关抑郁症的原因，连续性概念化，时间表，可治愈性，应对/治疗方案和优势的信息，图像和信息进行严格审查。为了提供有关特定演示文稿盛行的数据，我们对YouTube社交媒体平台上327幅代表抑郁症的视频进行了内容分析。YouTube对抑郁症的表现表明，抑郁症：1）是由生物学（49.5％）或环境（41.3％）因素引起的；2）是绝对构造（71％）；3）可以治疗，其中61％的相关视频（n = 249）表示“可能”恢复；4）是慢性病，在提及时间表的视频中有76％发现；5）是经常性（32.5％）；6）多数通过药物治疗（47.4％）或疗法（42.8％）进行治疗，尽管通常赞成饮食/锻炼（28.4％）和替代疗法（22.6％）；7）很少与强度相关（15.3％）。非专业视频记录员上载了近三分之一的视频，而心理健康组织上载了仅9％的视频。我们讨论了这些演示文稿如何影响有或没有抑郁症的人之间的污名化态度和抑郁素养，并提出了未来的研究方向，以更好地了解如何优化公开展示。